[ALUG] Email server and spam filtering

[Chris Glover]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, mephi wrote:

> I've started setting up an email server, and it's going quite well so far,
> but I want to add spam filtering.
>
> It's not a normal email server, it's more of a central storage for all of my
> external email accounts, so what I've got so far is:
> Setup one Linux user account per email account.
> Getmail receives the mail, and stores it in maildir format if each user's
> home directory.
> Dovecot acts as a local IMAP server to allow me to pick up the emails from
> each user.
>
> What I want is a server side spam filter in there, has anyone done anything
> like this?
>
> Matt

Hi Matt,

I use exim for handling the mail, with the help of amavis and 
spamassassin. amavis acts as an MTA (like sendmail or exim) and interfaces 
with spamassassin and the virus scanner of your choice. You can set spam 
filtering rules in the amavis config file.

I used to use fetchmail for getting my mail. You can configure that so 
that user_a at wibble.com,user_b at wibble.com maps to user at local.com. I stopped 
using it, as I get my mail delivered direct via SMTP now.

HTH

Chris

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