I appreciate your suggestion but the problem is not this. The configuration of mail server is not so simple. I want to check my mails from anywhere in the institute. I use putty or ssh for the same. I can't install ThunderBird on each and every PC.Moreover everyuser has a disk quota limit of 20 MB. I cannot install spamassassin as someone else suggested because of 20MB limit. I cannot buy a new powerful server because this server belongs to my institute. Himanshu Arora On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:07:30 -0500, Matt Morgan <minxmertzmomo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:53:03 -0800, arora.himanshu@xxxxxxxxx > <arora.himanshu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I am suffering from serious spam problem. I know that i > > can use spamassassin for this purpose but my system administrator has > > disabled this facility might be he thinks that it would slow down the > > server. I have no way to detect spams. I used procmail, it works for > > 20% of the cases because i used some specific dictionary words to > > check for spam because these mails are related to some particular > > subject. I cannot filter the mails because the mails are from > > different email IDs. The idea of using specific dictionary word failed > > because they used some special characters to represent some characters > > e.g. they used /\ for A. 1(one) or | (pipe) in place I( I for Indigo) > > \/ (backslash and forward slash ) for V. > > I want a program which is not heavy in terms of CPU cycles > > consumed, which i can run from from my home directory(independent of > > binaries installed on the server). Might be a simple perl script. > > Please reply me from where i can get this program. It need not be > > very accurate. 70% to 80% accuracy is fine. > > The first thing I would do is switch to Thunderbird as a mail client, > and turn on adaptive junk mail filtering (Tools--Junk Mail Controls). > It has an accuracy at least as good as what you need, once it's > "trained," and using it is painless. > > Then I would start nagging my system admin about SpamAssassin anyway. > At work I have SpamAssassin plus Thunderbird, and it works a lot > better than Thunderbird alone (which is what I do at home). SA may > slow down the server a little, but you can almost always buy a faster > server for a lot less than the value of the time all the people are > wasting. I mean, the whole reason we have computers is that they're > much better than people at mindless, repetitive tasks. Spam killing is > a job for computers, not people. >
