My biggest single breakthrough was in realizing that I could run any set of tests against any arbirtrary file, rather than having to wait for an email to come in and see whether my new test worked or not. Doh! So now, when an email comes in that I believe I can trap in the future, I copy it out, write some rules, run procmail against that file until I’m happy, and insert the rule into my real<\/em> procmail file. Cool!<\/p>\n Paying appropirate homage to the ones I learned from, here are two sites that got my juices flowing:<\/p>\n The first site above concludes by saying that you don’t need to know what he just taught you, as you can install SpamBouncer<\/a> instead. I installed it, and I have to say it’s a mind-bogglingly sophisticated system. I can’t believe how much work has gone into this. That said, while I learned a lot there too, and will probably go back again and again to some of the recipes and techniques in there, I am not going to “put it into production”.<\/p>\n Why? Essentially three reasons:<\/p>\n Anyway, all I can say is hooray \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Now, in case it hasn’t been completely obvious to my numerous readers, I’m a relatively passionate<\/em> person (OK, let’s not use euphemisms, the correct term is obsessive<\/strong>). As a result, much of my recent “free time” has been spent in this pursuit. As a result, my other previous obsession (online Poker), has taken a back seat. I have played a total of 2-3 hours of online Poker in the past 3+ weeks. For those who know me, that has to be a shocking fact \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n
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