[lists] [NMLUG] Spam filtering

[Ed at Heron-ent.com (Ed Heron)]

From: "Leila Potts" <lcpotts@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 2:33 PM


> I don't like the idea of the client doing the filtering, either.  This
> is an annoyance for me since I frequently check my mail via the web,
> and then use various IMAP clients on multiple PCs.  It's simply not
> practical to configure rules on each client.  The only acceptable
> solution, as I see it, is to have server-side filtering.  For spam, I
> have that, but not for anything else.

  I've just converted from old pop3 to courier-imap on my internal servers. 
I'm trying to decide what method I can use to filter my mail.  I can set up 
a procmail script.  The following script puts a message from root into a 
pete subfolder of the bob folder.

:0
* ^From.*root
${DEFAULT}.bob.pete/

  The folder should exist already, but doesn't create much of a problem if 
it doesn't.

  I don't like this solution for most of my users, though.  They don't have 
the familiarity with unix/editors/regexp that would be needed (not that I've 
used regexp much, myself)  Looking at Horde/Imp, it appears they have a 
vacation type autoreply that looks like it telnets in and writes a procmail 
recipe file.  I wonder if that could be extended to do other mail sorting. 
Though I guess many of you use squirrel mail.