Johannes Buchner

For not getting confused with my emails, I use filters obviously.
For blocking Spam I use spamassassin. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/
Both are integrated really nice in KMail, my favorite mail application.

Spamassessin is nice ’cause it’s actually software meant for mail servers. Thus I think the bayes and other stuff is quite good. Coolest thing is, I can also fine tune it:

The spam rating is based on scores given for the different tests run on the incoming email. As a user, you can create new test and set the scores for existant tests. If the sum hits a maximum (5 for me), it is flagged as spam. Cool feature in Kmail: You can see the spaminess (Spam score given by spamassessin)

My .spamassassin/user_prefs:

score DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24      5
score HTML_MESSAGE              3.3
score MIME_HTML_ONLY            5
score MULTIPART_ALT_NON_TEXT    3
score GAPPY_SUBJECT             5
score FROM_EXCESS_BASE64        3
score FROM_HAS_ULINE_NUMS       3
score UPPERCASE_25_50           3
score UPPERCASE_50_75           4
score SUBJ_ALL_CAPS             2
body EVIL_WORDS         /(software|petroleum|casino|kurs|profit|symbol)/i
score EVIL_WORDS                2
describe EVIL_WORDS     evil_words
body EVIL_WORDS2        /(price|oil|bonus|prognose|borse|preis)/i
score EVIL_WORDS2               2
describe EVIL_WORDS2    evil_words2
body DOLLAR_SIGN        /[\$]/
score DOLLAR_SIGN       3
body PERCENT_SIGN       /[\%]/
score PERCENT_SIGN      3

The 25_50 stands always for percent.