On 9/30/2015 1:25 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > 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 > Hi Steve,
Thanks, I'll look into it.
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