Perhaps a .forward from your university account to a Gmail account?
Let me know if you need a gmail invite.
Steve
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:40:03 -0800, jdow <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Scot L. Harris" <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 11:53, 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.
> > >
> > > Himanshu Arora
> >
> > Your email administrator should implement greylisting on the server.
> > This will provide significant relief (possibly as much as 90 to 99%)
> > without imposing heavy CPU or bandwidth load on the server. It is
> > available for most of the major MTAs out there (sendmail, postfix, etc).
>
> Another thing this person can do is run SpamAssassin on his own
> machine with the configuration under his control. One key to the
> whole thing is fetchmail. With that you can drag down your own
> mail, feed it to a tool such as procmail, and have procmail run
> SpamAssassin for you on your own machine. That means you can put
> in all the rules and training you want.
>
> (And since SpamAssassin is a perl based tool there are even ways
> to run it on Windows machines.)
>
> {^_-}
>
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