Sunday, January 21, 2018

Avoiding too many emails: SpamAssassin


The use of ict in schools should have given more free time to students, teachers and parents. Alas in some cases it did not happen! One of the reasons is that when one opens up his/her email account, there are so many emails! Email marketing is still being used. Some companies do sell our information. In other times we do give our information for some free goodies….yet in the end we are overwhelmed by the amount of junk mail we receive. I’ve heard people saying that they have hundreds if not thousands of emails in their inbox!! The overall result will be that such people will not open their email account as they see it as an impossible task even though they receive urgent emails!

Is there a solution? Well first of all working in a school we should all be educated to start thinking before giving in our information. Will they share our information? Please do take some time to read the information before signing in!

Secondly we have an open source program in order to train our email program to know what’s spam (unwanted emails) and what’s not. We introduce SpamAssassin. On that page one has where to download; wiki; forum; documentation and FAQ.

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