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RE: [Sheflug] Spam filtering



>>>>> "David" == David Morris <Morris> writes:

    >> -----Original Message----- From: Barrie Bremner
    >> [mailto:baz-sheflug [at] barriebremner.com] Sent: 30 July 2003 21:20
    >> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk Subject: [Sheflug] Spam
    >> filtering
    >> 
    >> 
    >> >>>>> "Chris" == Chris Johnson <chris [at] seseaz.org.uk> writes:
    >> 
    Chris> Is it possible to filter spam on our ISPs mail server
    Chris> without first downloading the mail to our local server?
    >> Use SpamAssassin. http://www.spamassassin.org/
    >> 
    >> Just tagging email as potential spam is trival.

    David> ...but, unless I misread something when I installed my
    David> Spamassassin setup, it works, effectively, as a filter on
    David> the incoming mail (which is certainly how mine is currently
    David> running). That, from reading what Chris wanted, isn't
    David> desirable. He wants to leave messages on the ISP's server.

Erm, find a UNIX host to act as your mail server and run SpamAssassin
there.

http://www.csoft.net/ where I host my website and send email to have
Spam Assassin available, and some simple tinkering with .forward
(.qmail in this case) pipes all mail through Spam Assassin.

They also have Perl with various Mail:: modules too, so I've actually
got a fair amount of email processing happening server side, before I
even get fetchmail on the case.

Once I've got my email locally, it gets injected into my local qmail
install and through Spam Assassin again, but with tighter rules.

If all you have is a simple POP3/IMAP account, then you'll need to
knock something together to filter as you download the messages or
just use headers/partial messages to decide if you fetch each message.

Cheers,

Baz.

-- 
Barrie J. Bremner
baz-sheflug [at] barriebremner.com      http://barriebremner.com/


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