Automatically deleting high-scoring spamEdit

Quarantining recipe

LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
VERBOSE=off
LOGABSTRACT=all

# mail very likely to be spam (>= 15) quarantined in "spam" folder
# or piped directly to /dev/null
:0
* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
#/dev/null
spam

# clean the environment before continuing
LOGFILE=
LOGABSTRACT=
VERBOSE=

Auto-deletion recipe

LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log
VERBOSE=off
LOGABSTRACT=all

# mail very likely to be spam (>= 15) quarantined in "spam" folder
# or piped directly to /dev/null
:0
* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
/dev/null
[/tags/spam #spam]

# clean the environment before continuing
LOGFILE=
LOGABSTRACT=
VERBOSE=

Efficacy

This auto-deletion system intercepted 749 messages to my business account and 8 messages to my personal account in a test period of just under sixteen days (late June/early July of 2006) with no false positives. This equates to an average block count of just over 47 messages per day.

For other efficacy statistics see combatting spam.

Log sample

From schepler@sammimail.com  Thu Jun 29 22:16:14 2006
 Subject: [SPAM] Tired of being overweight? We can help!
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        4825
From kurihara@uymail.com  Thu Jun 29 22:16:17 2006
 Subject: [SPAM] Be leaner and slimmer by next week!
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        4725
From kinch@miho-nakayama.com  Thu Jun 29 22:16:21 2006
 Subject: [SPAM] Watch your body change with Hoodia
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        4846
From lzap@asistencia.org  Thu Jun 29 22:16:21 2006
 Subject: [SPAM] Tired of being overweight? We can help!
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        4811
From uucp@ranmamail.com  Thu Jun 29 22:16:24 2006
 Subject: [SPAM] Doctors and Celebrities endorse Hoodia!
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        4727
From Consulting@BusinessExpert.prserv.net  Sat Jul  1 18:57:00 2006
 Subject: [SPAM] Start your business today
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        3623
From Consulting@BusinessExpert.prserv.net  Sat Jul  1 18:57:56 2006
 Subject: [SPAM] Start your business today
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        3818
From markb@indiya.com  Sun Jul  2 11:58:55 2006
 Subject: [SPAM] Be leaner and slimmer by next week!
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        4713