Re: dealing with spam

[Bill W. <wo...@ne...>]

Interesting idea. I would guess that mh-thread.el is doing something
similar as it groups messages in the same thread. It has a `T d' command
to delete the entire thread. In addition to being a good, if complicated
model for you, using the threading commands might work for you in a
pinch. You might consider binding a single character to
`mh-thread-delete' for ease of use. In the example you gave, you could
also use `C-x h' to select the entire buffer and use `d'.

I use a combination of spamassassin and bogofilter to keep this dreck
out of my inbox, but many messages still end up in my +spam/quarantine
folder. Fortunately, selecting all of the messages and running `J b' on
them is quick.

Greg Minshall <min...@um...> wrote:

> hi, i hope all are well.
> 
> i've always tried to live on the bleeding edge of the internet, or
> e-mail, at least, by not having any spam filters.  and, with mh-e,
> dealing with my normal loads of spam has not been a problem.  (plus i
> *do* keep a "white" list, "From:" addresses that i am *not* allowed to
> *easily delete.)
> 
> over the past two or so months the amount of spam i've been receiving
> has grown by an order of magnitude, and it's becoming a burden.  the
> 'From: "non-address"' part tends to break into a small number of
> strings, as so:
> 
> 
> x
> 
> so, my thought is to produce code that looks at the messages in the
> "unseen" sequence and show me a list of unique "From:" non-address bits,
> and then allow me to select one, pop up all the matching messages, and
> allow me to go 'd d d d d' to my heart's content.
> 
> it's unlikely anyone has ever tried to do something close to that.  but,
> if so and someone has some code that does things like that, or hints,
> etc., i'm all grateful ears.
> 
> thanks for listening.
> 
> cheers, Greg
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