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This isn't necessarily a good idea. The type of SPAM you receive is different than the type of SPAM I receive. Moreover, it is very possible that I do (not) con
by kilburn 13y ago
This isn't necessarily a good idea. The type of SPAM you receive is different than the type of SPAM I receive. Moreover, it is very possible that I do (not) consider some messages as SPAM whereas you do (not). It is true that it takes some time to train the filter, but after that initial period you will get better results if you only train it with your own SPAM.
I've been hosting my own email on a small personal server for some ~7 years now. All my email addresses redirect here (I have 9 frequently used addresses, and a bunch of website-specific ones). I'm using spamassassin (plus amavisd-new) as a proxy content filter. These are my filter's numbers for the last three days:
2 BAD-HEADER-2
1 BAD-HEADER-8
47 BANNED
297 CLEAN
6 INFECTED
426 SPAM
14 SPAMMY
Spammy mails are delivered to a special "Spam" folder (just like in GMail). All those were indeed SPAM messages. I've received no spam messages outside of those. The high number of CLEAN mails is because I'm subscribed to a few mailing lists and I receive notifications/tracking info/alerts from a number of services.
TL;DR: SpamAssassin is hard to setup and train correctly (just like the rest of a server's mail-stack). However, once you get over this part, the results can be as good as gmail's.
- justinmk 13y ago> I've received no spam messages outside of those. How protective are you of your email address? My email is posted all over the internet, but I haven't seen spam in gmail for at least 6 months--probably longer.
- kilburn 13y agoI have a special "don't care" mail account whose mails are delivered to its own folder (included in the shown stats). I do get a spam message in that folder very occasionally (as in once per month), but it's really far off from becoming annoying.
- enjo 13y agoI have a huge spam problem with gmail. Someone sold my email + first name. Googles spam filters are simply powerless if you include a first name in the email. I've reported these as spam (several a day) for months at this point. Hell, it gets marked as important.
- magicalist 13y ago> Googles spam filters are simply powerless if you include a first name in the email I think you're going to have to look elsewhere for a cause. Someone (probably several someones) sold out my email and first and full name. Gmail has no problem correctly categorizing all sorts of spam addressed to me by name.
- baudehlo 13y agoWhatever the cause is, it's still Google's fault/problem. I too have a big gmail spam problem (related to my email address being very short and guessable), and mark as spam on average about 10-20 emails a day.
- ChristianBundy 13y ago> Whatever the cause is, it's still Google's fault/problem. Why is it that no matter what the cause is, you feel that Google is to blame?
- dbpatterson 13y agoErr... because Google's spam filter is letting the message in? Seriously, it is a spam message, delivered to Google, and Google put it in the inbox instead of the spam filter. I don't know how much more clear cut it could be.
- kilburn 13y agoI may have an explanation for that. Gmail is very good at detecting waves of spam mails while the wave is being sent out. Basically, a (bunch of) hacked server(s) start sending SPAM mails. After some messages google realizes that these servers have been hijacked and starts rejecting mails from them. If your address happens to be among the first of the spammer's list, you will be hit by these emails. Otherwise when they send to your address google has already stopped accepting mails from that (those) ip(s) and you don't receive anything. It looks like enjo's address comes way before than yours...