From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [Rmail] Fighting spam Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 23:35:28 -0600 Message-ID: <20180605232257069435572@bob.proulx.com> References: <8736y947rw.fsf@maillard.im> <20180604111209301834037@bob.proulx.com> <201806050437.w554bQIr018935@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528263242 20242 195.159.176.226 (6 Jun 2018 05:34:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 05:34:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.0 (2018-05-17) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 06 07:33:58 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fQR50-00056V-MK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 07:33:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50417 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQR77-0008Bj-OS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 01:36:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54801) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQR6b-0008BY-QR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 01:35:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQR6Y-0001BN-MK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 01:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:52086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQR6Y-0001At-D0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 01:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF6E4134 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2018 23:35:28 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA0C217ED for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2018 23:35:28 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5881D2DC75; Tue, 5 Jun 2018 23:35:28 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201806050437.w554bQIr018935@localhost.localdomain> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116980 Archived-At: 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