Re: Family mail server

[Jay Crews <jpc jaycrews com>]

"David Condliffe (E-mail)" writes....
> 
> 
> Since it is so quiet... thought you might be able to give some advice on
> something else I am investigating.
> 
> SPAM is getting so bad these days, I was considering putting up my own mail
> server, running the filters and virus detection on that machine....etc
> 
> I am reading that qmail is a good product, does anyone else have any
> suggestions...

I don't know how much filtering qmail does, but
I started using spamassassin a couple of months ago
and it does a VERY good job of filtering out the
unwanteds.  Surprised the hell out of me.
I have yet to find a case where it labeled something as spam
that wasn't.  And less that 2% of mail that should be
labeled slipped through.  And there are utilities like "sa-learn"
to teach spamassassin to identify those more closely.

I'm running mine right out of the box, but if you want
to tweak it there are LOTS of options.
eg If you want to get porn from a few sites, but scrap the
others.

Running your own server?
I do, using sendmail and let procmail handle the
spamassassin part.  I could be mistaken, but I don't think
you even have to run sendmail.  I 'think' you can just use
fetchmail to pull your mail down from your ISP (or wherever)
and procmail/spamassassin will do their stuff.

> 
> Will be running on RH9
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
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