Stephen Patterson wrote:
Charlie Strauss <theslybook@yahoo.com> writes:Could anyone recommend a howto or some other source that will help me achieve my goal.Not much of a howto, just a few notes (apart from fetchmail I've been using this setup for a few months) 1 - fetchmail or similar to download all mail from external accounts and forward it to a local mailserver (exim) 2 - dyndns hostname for your box so people can email it directly (if desired) 3 - .procmailrc to feed everything into bogofilter to classify it as spam/non-spam, store email to maildir folders in ~/Maildir 4 - courier-imap or courier-imap-ssl to read it all. I've also got 3 spam folders, one for mail that bogofilter has marked as spam (I periodically delete everything from here), and 2 other folders (mark-as-spam & mark-as-ham) for training bogofilter with a couple of shell scripts that prune those directories once an hour.
Here is a more complete reference: http://steveblock.com/2004/12/01/debian-sarge-mail-system/ -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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