Re: [VM] spam in vm

[Uday Reddy]

On 4/25/2011 8:32 AM, Salome Södergran wrote:

> I haven't yet come to understand how vm handles spam. By which
> criteria, if any, does vm consider messages to be spam and what does
> it by default do with such messages? Is there a way to make vm learn
> about messages that I consider to be spam as does Thunderbird's junk-
> protocol?

I don't yet use VM for spam handling.  So, I will defer this question to 
others that use VM's spam handling facilities.  To get you off the 
ground, there are two separate issues in spam handling:

1. Spam scoring.   VM doesn't have any in-built facilities for spam 
scoring.  People use a variety of external programs, bogofilter, 
spamassasin etc.  Often ISP's run spam filtering tools before the 
messages are delivered (which is the case with me).  These programs are 
supposed to add a spam-score header to the mail messages.

2. Spam sorting.  The traditional method is to define a virtual folder 
called "spam", based on the spam-score headers as well as other criteria 
that you might need.  Then use the vm-avirtual package to either delete 
the "spam" messages or to file them separately.  (Unfortunately, the 
vm-avirtual package isn't well-documented in the manual.  But I think it 
is not too hard to figure out.  Defining the "spam" virtual folder is 
the main work.  You can consult the VM FAQ

  http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/vm-faq-10.html

for examples.)

Cheers,
Uday