Re: Fight spam with BBDB database?

[Hubert Chan]

>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Lynbech <christian.lynbech@ericsson.com> writes:

>>>>> "David" == David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:
David> Richard Wellum <rwellum@cisco.com> writes:
>>> It's just an idea, wanted to see if it was possible. Could I filter
>>> all email from users not in my BBDB database into a SPAM folder?
>>> That way I could run through the SPAM folder periodically, if there
>>> is a legitimate email in there I simply add to my BBDB database, and
>>> the next time it will go into my Inbox?

David> That's not a great way to hunt for spam

Christian> I agree, however BBDB can still be very helpfull.

I agree.  What I do is whitelist everyone in my BBDB database.
Everything else gets passed off to spam-split.  Code can be found at
http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/emacs.html  Other BBDB things can be
done similarly.

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