{"id":45,"date":"2003-12-02T19:22:51","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-02T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T19:22:51","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Spam, spam, spam, spam &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After playing around with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/thunderbird\/\">Mozilla Thunderbird<\/a> for a while, I decided to revert to my trusty copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutt.org\/\">Mutt<\/a>.  Mutt&#8217;s much more powerful but harder to learn to use, but I&#8217;d still recommend Thunderbird for most novice to intermediate users.<\/p>\n<p>Only downside with switching back is I needed to get a handle on all the <a href=\"http:\/\/mail-abuse.org\/standard.html\">spam<\/a> I receive.  Thunderbird&#8217;s Bayesian spam-recognition was actually pretty effective.  So, I decided that, instead of using my old, customized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.procmail.org\/\">procmail<\/a> recipes, I would give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spamassassin.org\/\">SpamAssassin<\/a> a go.<\/p>\n<p>First impression, very impressed with SpamAssassin.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t changed the default configuration yet, and it has so far performed almost perfectly, albeit on a fairly small amount of mail.  Approximately 50 messages correctly identified as spam, none incorrectly identified as spam, but it let through one piece of spam as &#8220;non-spam&#8221;.  Reasonable hit-rate though, for a default installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After playing around with Mozilla Thunderbird for a while, I decided to revert to my trusty copy of Mutt. Mutt&#8217;s much more powerful but harder to learn to use, but I&#8217;d still recommend Thunderbird for most novice to intermediate users. Only downside with switching back is I needed to get a handle on all the&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=45\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}