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Re: [Rmail] Fighting spam
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Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: [Rmail] Fighting spam |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Jun 2018 23:35:28 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.10.0 (2018-05-17) |
Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > You didn't say how email is getting delivered to your system.
>
> For a couple of years I was geting to my mail through IMAP servers but
> I was not satisfied having my e-mails stored and synced on every devices I was
> using. I have now switched back to POP and a sole copy on 1 computer and only
> 1.
I just find IMAP to be quite slow, especially as compared to having
the files locally available and cached in file system buffer cache.
> I have defined `rmail-primary-inbox-alist' to '("po:...").
>
> There is no other tool in the workflow (I got rid of
> fetchmail/getmail, procmail and the like).
If you do end up with a spam problem in the future you might consider
filtering your email through a spam classification system like
spamassassin or something similar on the way into your mailbox.
Perhaps fetching into a spooling folder and then filtering into a main
folder. Or something similar. But I think rmail by itself is going
to depend upon an external filter for it to at least add headers, just
like most mail readers these days.
Bob