[Users] spam classification

[Dave Howorth]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:05:20 -0700
Jigme Datse <jigme.datse at datsemultimedia.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:55:13 +0100
> Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I use the bogofilter plugin to filter spam from my mail. I wondered
> > whether it was worthwhile to forward spam to report at phishing.gov.uk
> > but then realized that I actually have two categories of spam that
> > bogofilter recognizes.
> > 
> > The first is 'genuine' spam that I think report at phishing.gov.uk
> > would be interested in.
> > 
> > The second category is mail from businesses who haven't responded
> > when I've unsubscribed from mailing lists and suchlike. Whilst
> > they're annoying so I filter them out, I doubt the government would
> > be interested in them.
> > 
> > So is there a way in claws to recognize two categories of spam and
> > process them separately? Or any way to add on such a capability
> > outside claws?  
> 
> I feel you could handle this in rules in your .forward.

I had to look up what a .forward is. I don't run smtpd so I don't think
it is relevant?

> I've not set
> things up myself, but I think that if you've already got a filter
> somehow marking the "businesses which don't respond to unsubscribe..."

No I just mark the messages as spam.

> if you do that, before they hit the, "this is legitimate spam" filter,
> you could potentially (though I'm not sure it's best practices) just
> forward those on.  

Sorry to be dumb, but how would I set up something to forward mail that
arrives in my spam folder to somewhere else?

> No idea as to whether that address is effective with anything that
> gets reported.  

Well yes, neither have I but they do ask for reports so ...