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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Feeding the Cloud: Disabling the GMail spam filter and handling it yourself using SpamAssassin

I've been using GMail ever since they decided to allow users to download their mail using POP. I was happy reading my email as usual in mutt. The only problem was that I had to log onto the website once in a while to clear out my spam folder and fish out the false positives.

However, as the amount of spam I receive daily started growing exponentially (in part thanks to my involvement in Debian), I became more and more dissatisfied with this solution. I had to login several times a day just to keep the levels of spam down to a manageable level. I tried emailing the GMail support team a few times without success.

The solution came just as I was looking at switching to a different email provider: IMAP access.Using fetchmail, I can now download my received and sent mail using POP and then download (and purge) the contents of my spam folder. Here are the relevant lines of my ~/.fetchmailrc:
poll pop.gmail.com protocol pop3 user "fmarier@gmail.com" is "francois" password "" fetchall sslpoll imap.gmail.com protocol imap user "fmarier@gmail.com" is "francois" password "" folder "[Gmail]/Spam" fetchall sslI can then run all of my mail through my own SpamAssassin filter (to which I added these excellent custom rules) and sort my mail in one of three folders:
definitely spam (conveniently located in /dev/null) for a score greater than 12
probably spam (I need to check those manually once in a while)
not spam for messages with a score less than 5This is done using procmail with the following bit in my ~/.procmailrc:
# Use spamassassin to check for spam# (only check messages <> 12.0:0:* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*/dev/null:0:* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes/home/francois/mail/spam



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Feeding the Cloud: Disabling the GMail spam filter and handling it yourself using SpamAssassin

Monday, May 5, 2008

How much heat your computer generated ?

Do u want to know how much heat ur computer generates...
Save energy and use this heat in alternate usage :).....



Pick up a carton of cooking oil....

Put ur computer connected to all wires in a almunium foil container
and add the cooking oil to it :) go ahaed and see the further instructions:0
follow Me :)...
Turn on your PC now.. don't worry.. it will not burn till there is no water in the oil..
Oil is non conducting liquid

OOOOO.. its getting hot...
put some potatos....

Add some more

Its time to eat the fries :)....
mmmmm... tasty ..
add some catchup or chilli garlic sauce if u like or eat without that :)..




ENJOY !!!!!