Am 01. Jul, 2003 schw=E4tzte Ed Skinner so: > I use kmail (KDE Mail) for all Email. Currently, Kmail is configure= d 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 traffi= c > 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 mess= ages > 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. SpamAssassin, as mentioned by others, is a great tool. It has rules for classifying SPAM *and* has a Beyesian filter. SpamAssassin doesn't filter the mail, though. That's what procmail is for. > 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). Are you using seperate mailboxen? If you use IMAP she can connect using a remote client. Same with POP, but POP sucks :). You don't need SMTP to serve up the mail boxen, that's what IMAP and POP are for. ciao, der.hans --=20 # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.AZOTO.org/ # "Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who says differently is selling somethin= g." # -- Dread Pirate Roberts in The Princess Bride