> Colin Bell wrote: > > > My main machine is at home, but I also read e-mail through a webmail > > client at work. I would like to filter out the 'likely spam' > > automatically to avoid clogging the webmail client. At present I end > > up deleting all the spam that arrives in work hours by hand... > > > I think what I need is a tool which periodically checks the ISP's > > e-mail server, downloads the e-mail without removing it from the > > server, runs it through the SA filter, and if it thinks it's spam > > then deletes the copy on the server. > > You'll probably have to explain more specifics about your setup > to get much > help.... what I will suggest (and this may or may not work for > you) would be > to run an IMAP server off of your home machine, and setup webmail on that > machine as well if you want (squirrelmail would work fine). Then > use getmail > or fetchmail or something to retrieve (and delete) all your mail from your > ISP. Use procmail or maildrop to send the mail through SpamAssassin and > filter suspected spam to a different IMAP folder; check this > folder at your > leisure.
Thanks for the reply. My setup is as follows: I have access to the ISP's mail server by POP3 and their own proprietary webmail service. I don't expect IMAP or anything else like that soon. My machine at home is a dual boot Win2k/RH7.3 box with broadband access. I currently read e-mail on Windows using Outlook but am likely to switch to Linux as the 'main operating system' and an e-mail client there. (Which one is to be decided - better anti-spam support obviously counts as a plus!) I've considered running a server on my machine (or more probably another UNIX machine I have access to) but I'd prefer to use the ISP's servers if possible for reliability reasons. Modifying a filter should hopefully be less work too. The solution which seems most obvious to me is to start with something like SAProxy (or the Linux equivalent), which is capable of working in two modes, one where it downloads the e-mail from the server, one where it leaves a copy there. Modify it so that it operates in an intermediate mode - if it thinks the e-mail is spam, delete the copy from the server, if not, then leave it there. At least from my preliminary investigations into Perl POP3 support this looks as though it ought to be a fairly trivial fix. Is there any reason why this doesn't work, or isn't a good solution? Thanks again, Colin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
