Randall Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running Red Hat 9, SA 2.44 (I believe) and I would like to set SA > up as a sudo firewall between my client and the server. Is there an > easy way to do this? > > I am on a DHCP connection so hosting the entire mail service is not > really possible.
I'm assuming you have two boxes on your local LAN, one running Windows, the other Linux. Your mail is stored on your ISP's server. Currently you POP your mail from your ISP, but you instead want the mail to go through a SpamAssassin instance running on a Linux box. If these assumptions are wrong, then my solution won't be very good, so please correct me. You seem to feel that you need a sendmail or postfix MTA running in order to set this up, but I don't think so. All you need is a tool like fetchmail, to POP your mail from the ISP, and a tool like procmail, to act as a delivery/filtering agent. Procmail can call upon Spam Assassin to filter the mail. Then, you would need a POP server running on your Linux box, and you can POP the mail over to Windows, from the Linux box. I strongly suggest that you do not simply put spam "in the trash", as you put it. Spam Assassin may be the best tool on the market, but it is still not perfect. You should watch it for a few days, weeks, etc to make sure that it is doing the right thing. The best way, in my opinion, is to put spam into a low-priority folder which you simply ignore most of the time, and only check once a day, week, month, whatever time frame suits you. Just to make sure some mail wasn't lost or miscategorized. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fuzzy Fox) || "Good judgment comes from experience. sometimes known as David DeSimone || Experience comes from bad judgment." ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
