I´ve decided I´m going to try and get rid of some more spam before it gets to my inbox. Considering what I do for a living I don´t really get that much spam coming in since one of my two main email addresses is filtered on the mail server. The Outlook spam filter handles a fair amount of other stuff but I still get about 30% of my inbox consisting of junk.
Most of the spam is coming in to a catch all address on a domain I´ve had for the longest but since it´s mine and pointed at my server which I have full root access. This means I can do whatever I want with it as far as spam tools go. The server is a good old Linux box with Sendmail and Postfix installed to handle my email requirements so I think I´m gonna start by shoving Spamassassin on it as well. This should hopefully kill a few more junk mails and if not, keep a load of them from my desktop machine anyway.
I´m also going to blacklist a range of IP addresses that belong to some foreign countries since I don´t need to communicate with them and they are known to be sources of spam. All I need to do then is convince everyone in the world to install an Antivirus program so their PCs don´t become zombies and start sending me loads of junk.