Dennis Putnam writes: > Thanks for the reply. I am using fetchmail to retrieve each > mailbox. I am familiar with spamassassin but I don't think I can > integrate that with fetchmail. I'm not sure what I could use.
Hi, Dennis -- I use fetchmail (for personal mail), but fetchmail normally delivers to a local MDA/LDA/MTA. Specifically, it can deliver using an SMTP protocol, or it can deliver over a pipe using the --mda option. So I invoke "fetchmail --mda maildrop" (maildrop is an MDA developed by the Courier MTA/IMAP project, I think). I don't currently use maildrop's filtering capabilities, but I would suppose that to access Spamassassin I would use the "xfilter" capability of Maildrop. I've also used procmail, but the fetchmail docs recommend maildrop, so you might want to use that program. You might also find that maildrop's built-in filtering is sufficient to your purposes. The advantage of SpamAssassin is that "crowd-sources" information about past spam -- if you were lucky, you update the SA rule set and automatically get protection from the most recent spam. Steve ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
