Re: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

2022-01-23 Thread Wols Lists
I already divide my emails into folders.  Example, any email that contains [gentoo-user] goes to the gentoo-user folder.  Similar for -dev etc.  I also have folders for things like banking, friends, family, shopping websites etc etc.  Well over 95% of my emails goes to a folder other than the gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

2022-01-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 06:29:06AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > > Just point your email client at dovecot. Or rather, create an account, > > in your mail client, that points at your dovecot server. Bingo, one > > empty IMAP mail account. > > I was hoping to use a web browser like Firefox to access my em

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

2022-01-23 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: >> Well, for the moment, I want to use it for gmail that I'm posting with. >> My reason for this, Seamonkey is in a iffy state.  I've already started >> using Firefox and containers for most other things but use Seamonkey >> mostly for emails.  My hope, set up something local so t

RE: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

2022-01-20 Thread Laurence Perkins
> -Original Message- > From: Marco Rebhan > Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 6:07 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote > question > > On Thursday, 20 January 2022 14:22:02 CET Dale w

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

2022-01-20 Thread Wols Lists
Well, for the moment, I want to use it for gmail that I'm posting with. My reason for this, Seamonkey is in a iffy state.  I've already started using Firefox and containers for most other things but use Seamonkey mostly for emails.  My hope, set up something local so that I don't lose any older em

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

2022-01-20 Thread Dale
Marco Rebhan wrote: > On Thursday, 20 January 2022 14:22:02 CET Dale wrote: >> What do others do with spam to minimize it? > Hi Dale, > > I'm not sure if you're talking about self-hosted mail because you > mention dovecot, if you do: > > I use postfix's smtp_recipient_restrictions to block mail co

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

2022-01-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On 20/1/22 22:06, Marco Rebhan wrote: On Thursday, 20 January 2022 14:22:02 CET Dale wrote: What do others do with spam to minimize it? Hi Dale, I'm not sure if you're talking about self-hosted mail because you mention dovecot, if you do: Google Gentoo mail gateway - there are a couple of

[gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

2022-01-20 Thread Dale
Howdy all, Over the years, I've been very lucky with regard to spam emails.  I'd get a few here and there but not enough to even annoy me slightly really.  A few months ago, something changed that.  I suspect someone I set up a account with shared my email address and got the ball rolling.  Now, I