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April 07, 2005
GMail as your spam filter
I’ve been using SpamBayes for a while and while it’s good, I found it that I have to keep retraining it since I have a massive amount of spams compared to the valid emails. My current training database is already my second database, and I’m not looking forward to do another SpamBayes training. Lately more and more mails have been classified as Junk Suspect rather than Junk Emails, this is getting annoying. At the moment on my SpamBayes training database I have 3 times the number of spam than valid emails, SpamBayes recommend that you have about the same amount of data on both category, this is just simply impossible (well for me at least).
My hosting provider also provides a free spam filtering service where they put *** SPAM *** on each email that they identify as spam, but it doesn’t work very well. On average I got about 30 - 40 spams a day and only about 2 or 3 marked as spams, sux.
Now I’m thinking, since all the free emails (Hotmail, Yahoo!, GMail)do a damn good job in classifying the spams, why don’t I just use them as my spam filter? So to do this all I have to do is automatically forward all emails from victor@hadianto.net to vhadiant@gmail.com and let GMail does it job. Whala!
On top of that since GMail offer free POP (unlike Hotmail and Yahoo! where you have to pay for the POP access .. boohoo) I just POP it back using my Outlook client, and bang problem solved!
Well I’ve just activated it now and send a test message from my ISP email account to victor@hadianto.net and it arrives successfully at vhadiant@gmail.com. So the jury is still out on how effective this going to be, but I’m pretty confident that this is going to work.
PS: This will only work if can configure your email forwarding rule on your mail server.
Posted by vhadiant at April 7, 2005 10:03 PM
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