On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> Something you might want to consider.  Move to Postfix, Postgrey,
> Dovecot (IMAP), and mail-sieve.

Rod,

   I've been using postfix + cyrus + spamassassin for oh, ... 9 years?
Something like that. I tried postgrey but couldn't get it working properly.

> Postfix is rock solid, easy to configure, and with Postgrey tossed in
> I've seen the spam (to a semi-trap account) drop from 20+ a day to a
> worst case of 2 or 3 a day and some times none for days.

   I hardly ever see spam in my inbox now; it's the messages that I expect to
see there and are missing that's the issue.

> IMAP (Dovecot) means your mail stays on the server so is accessible from
> all your computers not just the one you pop'd it to.

   I have only the one, plus my notebook. When I travel, I ssh into the
server and read my mail there.

> Mail-sieve handles nearly everything that procmail does and actually
> gives errors if something fails.

   Worth a look.

Rich

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