Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 20:52:45 -0800 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail filtering at server Message-ID: <43C9D51D.5080503@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <43C93519.1040309@gmx.net> References: <43C93519.1040309@gmx.net>
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Frank Staals wrote: > Hey, > > I'm running FreeBSD 5-stable and I'm using the system as mailserver, so > I set up sendmail using this guide: > http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html as imap server > I'm using imap-uw. Now I would like to do the following: > > 1) I would like to get all mail from questions@freebsd.org in a seperate > directory. Currently I do this by filtering my mail in the mailclient ( > Thunderbird ). The directory it uses for this is currently > ~/mail/Questions/ so I would like to keep that, how can I do this ? Can > I add this to /etc/mail/access ? what would then be the syntax ? I actually switched from IMAP-UW (ironic because I'm a UW student) to Cyrus-IMAP to manage my personal email. Cyrus has a built in filtering language called Sieve which works really well for moving my list and RSS feeds into proper IMAP folders. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html seems to suggest procmail can do this too. > 2) I would also like to filter my mail for spam, again: currently I set > up thunderbird to do this: the mail marked as spam/junk dissapears into > the junk folder: ( ~/mail/junk ) What is the best way to set this up ? > can this be done by sendmail itself or should I install an other program > from the portstree I actually haven't tackled this one yet. Try looking through http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html with a keyword of spam. HTH, Micah > > Thanks in advance, >
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