I just yesterday finished updates to the mail server so that SpamAssassin would run. It is configured so that when mail arrives at the server, it matches it against some criteria. Based on how well email matches, the server tags it with a number and lets it pass through otherwise unaltered. Messages that get a rating higher than 5 have their subject lines tagged with {Spam?}. Messages with really high ratings are tagged with {HighScoreSpam?}. It is now very easy to sift out the spam using a filter in an email client.
In addition to this change, I have added virus detection on the email server. If a potential virus comes in via email, the email subject line will be tagged with {Virus?} and the attachment that contained the virus will be removed from the message into quarantine on the server. Suspected virus files can be retrieved if I fetch them from the server. It would be cool if you could send mail to somewhere to retrieve your files.
Better yet, if would be cool if all of the messages that get tagged as spam could be archived in a digest and sent out only once per week as a list of headers. Then, any messages of interest could be released via a web interface or by sending a specially formatted email to somewhere. Yes, that would be perfect.
So far, the SpamAssassin has caught all of my spam with no false positives. I wonder if we can get Spam Assassin set up at work. Then I could be rid of all of my daily spam.
