Every piece of email sent to anything at fury.com comes into my mailbox. Any time someone signs up for a pron site and says their email addy is 'sound@fury.com' or 'raging@fury.com' I get another copy of pornmail and pyramid schemes for all eternity. Over the years I've tried several methods for cutting down the spam (they have my 'real' addresses as well, so simply filtering by that won't work). Procmail, greps, rulesets, third-party neural-net anti-spam services, zippo.

Basically my goals for a spam filter are to not allow any spam into my Inbox, and not miss any legitimate email. At long last, and after demoting Pine to a secondary mailreader, focusing on (groan with me) Outlook Express for the Mac, I've created a ruleset that's worked flawlessly for the last two weeks, and may be the holy grail I've been seeking.

well, a picture is worth a thousand words, even a 17K gif flowchart, so that's what I've got. I apologize for the gif quality. It's what Visio could do...

It's actually not that hard to set up. If you want something like this for yourself, but don't understand something in the flowchart, drop me a line.