I use SpamAssassin (http://www.spamassassin.org) and love it. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Skinner" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:21 PM Subject: KMail, Spam, Advice Wanted > I use kmail (KDE Mail) for all Email. Currently, Kmail is configured to > go and fetch my Email from four different places every ten minutes or so > (while launched and sitting on my desktop). > I need to implement two changes: first, the spam is getting utterly > ridiculous and I need something automatic to pre-classify incoming traffic > into "might be spam" and "probably not spam" (and "definately spam"?) > categories. > Secondly, I need to split my wife's email out into a separate "place" so > she can read it from her machine (and mail program) at a different time. > > Here's what I think I need to do (please correct my thinking or, if > there's a better way, please let me know): > > 1) Use fetchmail to retrieve Email from external servers and put the messages > somewhere "local" (on machine #1 which is up 100% of the time). > 2) Use ????? to paw through that mail and do the anti-spam filtering. > 3) Use kmail (on machine #1) to read my (now local) mail, and > 4) Let my wife use a different mail reader (probably Mozilla's built-in) to > read her Email when logged on to her system (machine #2). > > Looks like I'll have fetchmail set up in a cron entry, and I'll need to > have an SMTP agent on machine #1 to "serve" the Email out to me (kmail, on > same system) or my wife (mozilla, different system). > Does that look right? (Suggestions for the spam filtering daemon would be > appreciated.) > > TIA! > > -- > Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >