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Spam of all colors via Mail and SpamAssassin
Authored by: alani on Aug 18, '04 02:19:34PM

Hmmm, you started out talking about your cell phone, but you only got as far as explaining how to filter in Mail.app.

The hard part for most people is going to be getting SpamAssassin running with their IMAP/POP servers.

If they get past that hump, then they can use server-based filtering (e.g., Procmail) to put anything SpamAssassin tags as spam into a location other than their inboxes -- assuming the cell phone is only downloading the inboxes.

Anyway, it's a longer discussion, but I thought I'd post the concept. There's a bunch of postings in the Apple discussion boards. Look under the Unix section and search for fetchmail, procmail, and spamassassin.



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Spam of all colors via Mail and SpamAssassin
Authored by: iljitsch on Aug 19, '04 01:25:47PM

MattHafner: strange, I have no problems. Maybe it's something else? (The name or something.)

alani: I didn't find setting up SpamAssasin with my vanilla FreeBSD imapd all that complicated. (Although it took me a while to realize that "ham" means non-spam. At first I thought it was a special type of spam.) And I gather that more and more ISPs run SpamAssassin or something similar for their customers.

And if you're interested in procmail you're going to love my next hint. :-)



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