Kmail and spam filtering

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Saturday 22 July 2006 15.24, nigel henry wrote:
> I download my mail direct from my ISPs POP3 server to Kmail. Having just
> had my second email address cracked by spammers, I think it's about time
> that I started filtering the spam out.
>
> Can anyone give me some specific help, as to what I need to use, and how to
> set it up, so that I can filter the spam out that's downloaded to Kmail
> direct from my ISP?
>
> I do not have a mailserver setup, apart from Sendmail running, so that I
> can read local mail, logwatch, etc, in Kmail.
>
> Any help really appreciated.
>
> Nigel.

Hello Nigel,

I use Bogofilter to filter spam out of my mail. It works well and (most 
important) it has never produced "false positives". After some learning, it 
lets half a dozen spams trough a day (on 200-300 mails received).

If you're interested, I can digg out the install instructions.

Thierry

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