Sundial Services International, Inc. wrote: > Oops, that wasn't too clear... let me clean up the text a bit here.... > ---- > > > Here's my problem. We use an external ISP to handle our mail, and of course > we are getting pummeled with spam so fast that the mailbox can fill up > within hours. We use a different ISP to handle the web-site and can set up > programs on that. > > What I want to do, unless it has already been done, is to construct a Perl > script that can then be run periodically as a cron-job. What this script > would do is to interrogate each of the mailboxes we use, determine what's > spam among them, and delete those messages so that only good mail comes down > the line when we download mail. > > In other words, this script is going to connect through POP3 to the other > mail server, get the text of all the pending mail (up to 5MB of data), > compare and run it through the wringer, DELE the bad stuff, and exit. It'll > do that about twice an hour.
Lets not over complicate stuff - setup a spare linux box. Install fetchmail, qmail, qmail-scanner and courier-imap using Maildirs. Use fetchmail to download your mail from your ISP. Use qmail-scanner to do the SpamAssassin phase (and perhaps get a virus checker in there too). Deliver to qmail. Then just collect your mail via IMAP from that box using Courier IMAP. All of this would be about half a day's work if you very carefully follow the instructions for each piece of software I've listed there. You do that *once*. Then you'll have an email system that can eventually scale to thousands of users if you ever need that. And I *do* mean "lets not over complicate stuff". This is really easy to work with once you get it all installed. It's almost exactly how I work at home - and I only admin for my wife and I ;-) Matt. _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
