Cleaning your Inbox
Okay you want to block all that crap that is filling your mailbox on a daily basis and your ISP says that they are doing all they can, yeah right! Well spanky there is a way that you can clean your mailbox so that you don’t have to see all the Viagra,Bank Loans, and penis launcher ads, but still get the stuff that you do want to read.
What you want is SpamAssassin, a cross platform tool that sorts out all the bad stuff and filters the good and saves you a lot of time and trouble when checking your mail.The trick with Spamassassin is you have Ham and Spam, Ham is the good stuff, or I should say what you consider to be good and bad, some folks love spam I hear. And how does this magic work you ask? Spamassassin works with rules, some of which are really basic and then there are the custom ones that you write to make your mailbox even more secure.
Now before you say this is way to techy for you me to do,take a second and check out the links that are below and you will see that all it takes is a minute with a text editor and you will be in business.
Make Custom Rules
Custom Rulesets
Fine Tuning Spamassassin
And yes they are easy and yes they really do work. So with just a couple of minutes of work you will be able to open your mailbox every morning without the pain of spam hitting you between the eyes. So have fun and enjoy the web once again.
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Posted by Baldy - Baldys Paradox