The Topic is: MTA Email filtering with Procmail & a look at the MUA KMail
The next SLUG meeting will be Monday 9/12/2005 at 7pm in Morse Hall room 301. Most users have moved to modern Mail User Agents (MUA) for there SPAM filtering capabilities. Most Linux users are using Evolution, the subject of a previous SLUG talk. The problem with taking advantage of all the filtering capabilities available on the MUA is that you now become tied to that mailer and to reading mail from that one location. Or you have to keep multiple filters updated on separate platforms, like a work desktop, laptop and home computer. Doing your filtering at the Mail Transport Agent (MTA) level allows the user to use any available mail client. The filtering will have already been done, as the mail arrives, normally yielding faster startup when you open your mailer. When combined with IMAP you have access to all saved messages from other platforms as well. This allows reading pre-filtered mail using different mailers, even lightweight PDA or Cell Phone Mail clients. As an alternative MUA to Evolution we'll use KMail as our example mail client. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Robert E. Anderson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programmer phone: (603) 862-3489 UNH Research Computing Center fax: (603) 862-1761 -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss