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Re: [MiNT] [Fwd: [Mint-cvs] [FreeMiNT CVS] cat/EDITOR/INCLUDE]



Quoting Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>:

It can filter out unwanted mails, also known as spam.

Just an FYI, an interesting spam-filter can be made easily by searching your
mail for web links. Take the hostname and find the IP, then lookup the IP in a
DNS block-list, such as sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.  By only looking at links you
reduce the chance of false positives to nearly 0, and its a bit less CPU hungry than other methods like spamassasin. Nearly 100% effective, and when used with
a local caching DNS server such as djb's dnscache, its really fast.

So (to get back on topic) this would make a great addition to MiNT-capable email
clients.

-- Evan