[Wylug-help] Re: Spam filtering.

[John Kershaw]

I have SpamAssassin on my mail server, which then forwards everything  
to Gmail. I then use Apple Mail to pull from pop.gmail.com and run  
its Junk filtering.

Gmail tells me its binned 34,270 spams in the last 30 days but  
there's still a few to nail every time I check my mail (down to once  
per hour!). I run 40+ web sites so get tonnes of junk :(

I figure running my mail through multiple systems this way means  
email use is still viable and, if someone's sent me something  
important that got junked somewhere, I can still find it in Gmail  
(for 30 days at least). It's a reasonable cusp-point between usable  
with slight risk or disappearing under the deluge.

John.

On 18 Jun 2007, at 08:48, John Hodrien wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
>
>> Chris
>>
>>> How is it recommended that I do this? I have a Debian based
>>> fileserver that also does a few other bits & pieces. Should I set
>>> up a mailserver as well?
>>
>> You can use Postfix, Fetchmail, Procmail, SpamAssassin, Mail::Audit.
>> Use Google to search for configuration files and so forth.
>
> And depending on what mail client you use, don't entirely ignore  
> inbuilt
> filtering.  Thunderbird's spam filtering isn't hideous, and if you  
> happened to
> be already using it, the startup effort is less that t'other  
> solutions.
>
>>> The choice is confusing. Would Postfix & Dspam do the trick, or is
>>> there a more suitable combination?
>>
>> try 'apt-cache search spamassassin' .  spamd and spamc are also
>> helpful.
>
> spamassasin's what I use, and it's fairly effective.  I never  
> expect spam
> filters to be 100%, but I seem to have hit a happy medium with SA,  
> such that I
> get no false positives, and about 95% of spam is filtered.
>
> jh
>
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