ScruLoose declaimed: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 06:21:33PM +0000, steve downes wrote: > > > I am using debian testing with:- > > > > Exim 3.36 > > Cyrus 1.5 > > Mutt 1.5.5 > > > > Very happy with it but want to add an auto mail sort to pre sort > > mailing lists out from work mail into other boxes to read at my > > leisure. Also a bit of spam sorting would not go amiss. > > > > The choices I have been looking at are > > > > Cyrus 2.1 (poor documentation, looks complex to set up & no idea how > > well it works) > > Procmail (looks good but cannot see how to integrate it into cyrus) > > Jumping in perhaps a bit late... > I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the option of using Exim's built-in > filtering capabilities. There's some option to enable in the exim conf > that allows per-user .forward files with (relatively) procmail-like > filtering capabilities, which is what I use here and am quite happy > with. This is enabled by default. Documentation is slightly hidden but thoroughly covered in /usr/share/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz. The exim+.forward combo works so well for me that I've never bothered to attempt the procmail learning curve. > > As for spam filtering, it's an awfully big question. Lots of people have > lots of differing opinions on the best way to go about it. I'm relatively happy with mailfilter, which connects to a POP server and deletes messages based on header content without downloading them. It supports scoring although I haven't gotten that far. Mailfilter's main limitation is that it can't detect attachment names, so you can't proactively nuke anything with a .pif or .exe extention.
Enough spam leaks through, however, that I'm going to augment it with a Bayesian spam filter... apt-cache search bayesian ... Note that I use exim's "Internet site using smarthost" model. If I ran SMTP directly I'd certainly check out spamassasin. > > One way that I've found worked well for me was "method 1" from dman's > very helpful howto here: > http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/ I always try to read dman's posts on this list, he's one of our assets. Cheers, PM -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
