i wrote a white list mail filter for my primary email account. i was just getting way too much spam and it was getting to be quite the pain. hopefully this filter will work out much better. i still haven’t figured out the management side of things yet but i need to find an easy way to add to my white list. it’s kind of a mess right now. i think that i may end up rewriting a good part of what i’ve done to help facilitate that…but for now, it works well and i’m pretty happy.

the only thing that i’m scared of is new people who email me. how am i going to make sure that their emails don’t get lost? i think that i may need to do some kind of whitelist/blacklist combination for this to be really effective…maybe make a graylist too for the fuzzies…i don’t know…i’m sure someone else has solved this problem before, how did they approach it? hmmmmm.

i was thinking about installing spam assassin or something, but i’m really afraid of any false positives that may come up. we’ll see.