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From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Rmail] Fighting spam
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 23:35:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180605232257069435572@bob.proulx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201806050437.w554bQIr018935@localhost.localdomain>

Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > You didn't say how email is getting delivered to your system.
> 
> For a couple of years I was geting to my mail through IMAP servers but
> I was not satisfied having my e-mails stored and synced on every devices I was
> using. I have now switched back to POP and a sole copy on 1 computer and only 1.

I just find IMAP to be quite slow, especially as compared to having
the files locally available and cached in file system buffer cache.

> I have defined `rmail-primary-inbox-alist' to '("po:...").
> 
> There is no other tool in the workflow (I got rid of
> fetchmail/getmail, procmail and the like).

If you do end up with a spam problem in the future you might consider
filtering your email through a spam classification system like
spamassassin or something similar on the way into your mailbox.
Perhaps fetching into a spooling folder and then filtering into a main
folder.  Or something similar.  But I think rmail by itself is going
to depend upon an external filter for it to at least add headers, just
like most mail readers these days.

Bob



  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-06  5:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-30 13:01 [Rmail] Fighting spam Xavier Maillard
2018-05-30 13:51 ` Jude DaShiell
2018-05-30 17:10   ` Xavier Maillard
2018-05-30 17:39     ` Jude DaShiell
2018-06-01  0:38       ` Eric Brown
     [not found] ` <mailman.808.1527688307.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-05-31 15:02   ` James K. Lowden
2018-05-31 18:48     ` Emanuel Berg
2018-05-31 20:01       ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]       ` <mailman.879.1527796902.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-05-31 21:29         ` Emanuel Berg
2018-06-01  6:40           ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]           ` <mailman.903.1527835215.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-01 10:12             ` Emanuel Berg
2018-06-01  0:47 ` Eric Brown
2018-06-04 17:19 ` Bob Proulx
2018-06-05  4:37   ` Xavier Maillard
2018-06-06  5:35     ` Bob Proulx [this message]
2018-06-08  4:42       ` Xavier Maillard

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