How to filter the emails from this list

[David Wolfskill]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:20:59PM +0100, Daniel A. wrote:
> ...
> But how do I make sure that _every_ email to the gets filtered?

Look for the "Delivered-To:" header.

> I've noticed that all emails sent to the FreeBSD mailing lists get
> suffixed with some text. Can I trust that this text wont change every
> few weeks or so?

You could do that, but I wouldn't recommend it; I certainly wouldn't
consider that text to be appropriate input for that kind of filtering,
and I would have no expectation that I'd need to let anyone know before
I changed it.

> How do you filter your emails?

Actually, I only do a couple of binary filters.  The first is at the
MTA:  I do what I can to decline to accept spam at that point.  That
takes care of 85 - 90% of the SMTP conversations my MTA receives.

Mail that I see then gets categorized as either "spam" or otherwise, and
if it's spam, I examine it to adjust the criteria for the first filter
to reduce the probability that I'll ever see another such spam.  (I also
use similar criteria for a couple of other domains for which I'm
postmaster.)

The rest of the mail, I generally try to read and delete as fast as I
can, first-in, first-out.  Occasionally, I save a message or two.

Peace,
david   (current hat: postmaster at freebsd.org)
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