[VM] spam in vm

[Salome Södergran]

Hi!
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 haven't been seriously spammed in vm yet but I'd like to arm myself
in good time :-)
Best, Salome

[Uday Reddy]

Post by Salome Södergran
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

[Salome Södergran]

Post by Uday Reddy
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.)

I will try the vm-avirtual package. Thanks once again!
Salome