Re: spam blacklist pop3 solution
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:43 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:46:15PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 19:15 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:
> >
> > > Unfortunately the only blacklisting that murx does is to allow you to
> > > build up your own blacklist - I want to use or connect to a public or
> > > commercial blacklist database, such as the possibly mythical one I have
> > > heard of (see above).
> >
> > Would this work:
> >
> > Set up your own MTA; receiving from the universe and sending via the
> > ISP .
> >
> > Get the ISP to forward your mail (or use fetchmail if the ISP
> > can't/won't) so your email will come to your MTA as if it were coming
> > from the Internet. At this point, you have at least some control over
> > SMTP.
>
> No, I believe if you have to use fetchmail it is too late to do anything
> at the SMTP level.
Correct. But setting up Postfix & SpamAssassin is not terribly
difficult, with help from Google.
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