Spam Busting Comes Crashing Down
Remember my spam-handling trick from way back? The one where I gave out one-time email addresses on my web site, and then dumped those addresses that received spam in the trash? And addresses that didn't match the pattern for my one-times were forwarded to Gmail, which has been handling almost 200,000 of them per month? I was excited back when because I automated the process of making the recipes. After 4,243,626 trashed messages (and some other number processed by Gmail's filtering), the hosting company shut it down. They said mail processing on the system had ground to a halt, so they moved all of my forwarding recipes elsewhere. That meant 44,000 messages piled up in my inbox there. When I try to use Mutt to cut that down, Mutt is killed as a resource hog. Sigh!