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Spam adventures
Sep 22, 2008 onToday I have had a gigantic e-mail spam attack. And by “gigantic” I mean something like one every couple of seconds. It seems to have stopped by now, though (maybe until tomorrow, sigh). However, there is some small tip that I used in the meantime, and I have found it helps me filtering spam so I thought I’d share with you. It’s very simple: ordering by subject instead of by date. Of course, you have to filter your view to only unread messages, but it works surprisingly well.
This is very easy to do in mutt, my mail reader of choice (for personal e-mail; I have found that, at least for work e-mail, Opera’s M2 works quite well too). You just have to limit to unread messages (pressing lowercase “L” and then using “~N” as filter), and then sort by subject (
:set sort=subject
). I have even created too “macros” in mutt to switch back and forth between “spam filtering mode” and “normal mode” :macro index Cs ":set sort=subject<return>l~N<return>" macro index Cq ":set sort=threads<return>lall<return>"
Let’s hope it doesn’t begin again tomorrow
:-S