Chris Santerre wrote: > From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Loren Wilton wrote: > > > > So I started running fetchmail as a cron job from each mail > > > > server. This seems to work fine. What puzzles me is that I > > > > never saw this suggested anywhere. Am I missing some obvious > > > > alternative? > > > > > > Nope, this is a moderately standard way to do this. > > > Fetchmail->procmail->SA (spamc/spamd)->delivery stuff. > > > > > > It has been discussed, but not a lot. Most perople on the list > > > seem to be running Big Machines and would be on the feeding end > > > of the pop3 link, so they don't have much use fo r this sort of > > > solution. There are probably half a dozen perople (including > > > myself) on the list that do this. > > > > There may be more than you think. I do both. I've got a "Big > > Machine" (medium volume mail server) at work and I do > > Fetchmail->Maildrop->SA at home. > > IMHO I think its because most of us belive if you have to fetch the > spam, scan it localy, then you have already lost the battle by having > to waste resources to get the spam down to your machine. I realise > there are people who don't have a choice. Only thing you can do is > complain to your ISP. (The S in ISP is for Service. Most ISPs forget > that.)
My ISP does provide spam filtering -- I just don't like it. It tends to be a bit too aggressive at times, is not configurable at all, and I have to log on to the webmail interface to check on it. With only two low volume mail users, the resource usage is minimal. By running Fetchmail->SA, I have full control over the filtering and deleting of messages and I can filter the spam into an IMAP folder that I can easily check with Thunderbird. -- Bowie
