ED, you may want to look into SpamAssassin (the website was down at the
time I'm posting) or Mozilla ThunderBird junk mail buster. We're always
interested in finding out how well the junk mail tool is working for
people.
Carl P.
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:21, Ed Skinner wrote:
> 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!
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