E-mail switch

[cjsmith]

HAHAHAHA I have just flipped the switch to send pretty much all of my e-mail to my new sooper sekrit shell account. This account HAS SPAM FILTERS thankyouverymuch, and it is (so far) completely uncompromised -- I have never received a piece of spam sent directly to that address. The only spam I get there is forwarded from my existing known e-mail address, which is about to DIE DIE DIE.

(Too bad, really. Bayarea, my soon-to-be-ex-provider, has been good to me in every way but this. They have all the stuff I want in a shell account -- telnet and FTP capability, emacs, calendar, some tiny amount of public web space, use of a compiler, very very little downtime. But they do not take spam seriously.)

Now I just need to spend a week or two seeing what still comes in on that account, noting who sent it, and telling all legitimate folks what address to use instead.

This feels sooooooooooo good.

LJ folks: my at livejournal address works fine.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Spam Assassin sounds good -- at one time I was trying to install it in my bayarea homedir.

I should check out panix for pricing. Back when I signed up with bayarea, $30/month looked good. Now I suspect I could do much better.

[firecat]

I did install it. But I prefer using the ISP's Spamassassin, because it needs frequent updating.

Panix = $100/year prepaid for telnet-only shell access.

[hanov3r.livejournal.com]

Not only is panix competitively priced, their abuse team is top notch. They're *death* on spam, both incoming and outgoing.

There's always the option of doing your own spam filtering - I'm reading my mail in pine in a shell, and I've got procmail and the SpamBouncer (http://www.spambouncer.com) running on my incoming mail. I don't use it to report spam - just filter the mail I want into folders and throw the spam into its own folder to look at later. I see very few false positives.