Re: Newbie to Spamcop - Am I doing this right?

On Fri, 12 May 2006 15:27:37 +0100, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 
> As a sideline, the email address I use I have had for around six years now, 
> and is a massive target for the spammers - I get around 100-150 spam 
> messages per day.

You might prefer to set up filters so that most of those 100-150
spams per day end up in your Held Mail folder, where the whole
lot can be disposed of with two clicks (the unlabelled "select all"
square, then "Report as spam").

Personally, I've configured things so that nearly all spam
(and a tiny bit of non-spam) goes into the Held Mail folder,
and then a Python program on my desktop uses IMAP to
retrieve headers from Spamcop, look at them closely, and
have Spamcop move most of the messages in Held Mail into
another folder named "Spam for Sure". I can then spend a
little bit of attention scanning Held Mail before reporting
it, and very little attention on Spam for Sure.

You can get the Python program here:
http://webpages.charter.net/curryfans/peter/spamcopfilter.py

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