Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:29:15 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Matt Smith <matt@forsetti.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I block spam locally? (WAS: Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]) Message-ID: <20021121162915.GF77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <1037890842.729.13.camel@d80h149.public.uconn.edu> References: <20021121031809.GA77831@tao.thought.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10211210844210.23313-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> <20021121135803.GB11980@gothmog.gr> <20021121140056.GA30746@kierun.org> <877kf7kmib.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> <1037890842.729.13.camel@d80h149.public.uconn.edu>
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# matt@forsetti.com / 2002-11-21 10:00:43 -0500:
> I agree, but how do I run spam filtering locally?
> As an average desktop user, I simply use a client to POP mail from a
> server -- are there client plugins that filter for spam? I currently
> use Evolution, but am willing to change if there a spam filter plugins
> for other clients.
Unless Evolution can't grok usual mail formats (mbox, Maildir),
you'll want to do something like:
POP3 client -> spam filter -> disk <- MUA
(note that you use Evolution to do both sides of the graph)
you don't need to change your MUA.
> As a slightly-more-than-average desktop user, I just figured out
> fetchmail to fetch a POP3 account to my local sendmail (base system,
> default install, set for local deliver only). Is SpamAssassin the
> "best" way to go? Is it a "plugin" for Sendmail? If I'm going to start
> messin' with my local MTA, should I try something besides Sendmail? The
> config options of Sendmail are somewhat daunting -- it seems like an
> SMTP handler should be simpler.
you don't need fetchmail to reinject the messages to sendmail just
to get them stored on the disk.
sorry for being this terse, i'm short on time.
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