> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dickson, Paul > To: Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:11 AM > Subject: [Assp-user] suggestions for single user installation due > toignorance. > > I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to implement assp on a > client side system.
In order to use ASSP for client side protection, you are going to have to set up a mail server on his or some other computer to pull down his email, scan and then make it available to his home email client via pop. Do you really want to go to that extreme? > Any better suggestions? I suggest you instead look into a good free client side POP3 antispam proxy like SpamPal. It was initially conceived as a client side antispam tool and works very well for that. It can also act as a server service like ASSP does. It can do Bayesian, whitelisting, RBL, SPF, URIBL, etc. It will see all the SMTP hops in the email headers, which is great since you will be getting the email from a trusted source, and also checks the domain of the sending address. www.spampal.org Has great forum support. When configured for client side, it runs on the user's computer and proxys the POP access. It has manual or automatic(transparent) proxy setup. I never liked the transparent proxy but I was running it on the server and it might work just fine on a client computer. The client's email client then connects to spampal's pop3 port and spampal connect's to the MTA's pop3 port. Mailwasher is another good pop3 spam filter I have used. It is a retail product but has a free version for one account I think. www.mailwasher.net I used it a long time ago when it was being developed and it was very easy to set up. It wasn't a proxy but would clean the email before downloading it and would alert me to the email's presence. Using it in concert with spampal was very effective back in the day's before ASSP. > his home email account has become an issue. Last, you might look into his spam settings at his ISP. I get hammered with spam on an old flash.net email address which was used to post to BBS's and online groups. That ISP was bought by Prodigy and then SBCGlobal, so now it gets Yahoo's mail filters and I have to say they catch more than 90% of the image spam and scam emails. The settings are configurable and can be set to do no spam filtering. Failing that, you might 86 his account and set him up with a Gmail account. Good antispam and allows pop3 access. Doug Traylor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
