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Run a local IMAPd server for extra Mail storage
Authored by: alani on Jun 14, '04 09:42:03AM

Great hint!

I just finished putting together this combination: Fetchmail-Postfix-Procmail-SpamAssassub-IMAPd.
It grabs email from my POP vendors, filters it through SpamAssassin, and serves it out to Mail.app and other clients on the local machine, LAN, and WAN.

The reasons to do something like this are really obvious to me, but apparently not to everyone, so let me spell it out:
1. Overcome email providers' storage limit.
2. Consolidate email from multiple vendors.
3. Use spam filters trained specifically for your email usage.
4. Multiple email clients on multiple machines stay sync'd.
5. Archive and backup email however you like.
(6. Run SquirrelMail webmail if you want)

I'm a total amateur and it's entirely possible I've opened up security holes, created opportunities for data corruption, and who know what else. But I'm pleased with how things have been working.

I'll get around to writing up the recipe and posting it here in the near future. But, suffice it to say, it's not too hard (now that I've found the installation pitfalls for you), and it's catching better than 9 of 10 spam messages that had been getting through.



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