[Pine-info] guide how to set up mail filtering, etc

[Cornelius C. Noack]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:


> Hello,

>

> Is there any good guide how to go about filtering mail in Pine? Most 

> that I have seen encourages the use of procmail. While I am not against 

> it, I'd rather use built-in filtering capabilities in pine, if any.

>

> Many thanks for any link or hint.

>

> Warm regards,

>

> --

> Zbigniew Szalbot

>

Using filters in pine is easy: Choose
                        - setup
                        - Rules
                        - Filters

The online instructions are sufficient. I am using it, and it works OK.

Restrictions:
     * I would like a somewhat more "intelligent" algorithm. Many spam
       messages do not show any obvious spam catch words or other
       signatures (and thus pass the simple filters you can set in pine),
       but are obvious spam tom the human reader. In practice, with the
       filters I have set, pine catches about half my daily load of spam,
     * sometimes pine catches false positives. The most important case is
       good mail coming from a bad charset pattern (I found searching for
       those is one of the more effective ways to search spam).

       IMHO, it is therefore good practice not to delete found spam, but
       rather move it to a special folder. weeding that visually for the
       0.1% false positives before cleaning it once in a while seems far
       faster (and thus more efficient) than deleting all the spam manually
       from the INBOX folder.

ccn.
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