Fedora 2, Spam & Mail Transport

John Thompson JohnThompson at new.rr.com
Tue Sep 14 12:20:10 UTC 2004


Tor Harald Thorland wrote:

> But, spamassassin works on a mail server, but is it then possible to setup a
> server myself, wich collects the mail from my other mail accounts, and then
> processes them here localy? (the server my mail is on now is my ISP's)
> Is there any other solutions (preferably local)

Sure.  Use e.g. "fetchmail" to gather your mail from your ISP and feed 
it to a local server on your machine.  This local server can run 
spamassassin/procmail/etc. to do the filtering before the mail hits your 
inbox.

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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)





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