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After an exchange on Twitter I thought I might have talked about this sometime in the past and apparently I did on the old blog (see below). I've since moved on to Fedora and this is working fine (I did get it working before under Mandrake).

Now I'm doing this:

all mikebeane & rabbibob domain mail goes through Cliff's server in Bangor. Email is scrubbed only tagged as spam via SpamAssassin
- Whitelisted family/friends email addresses
Mail from those domains go to gmail.com via autoforward
Gmail does its spam scrubbing
My local Linux box then fetchmails out, pulls in all POP accounts (including Fiona's)
Mail is scrubbed and again only tagged as spam (diff tag structure to keep them separate) via SpamAssasin
- Whitelisted family/friends email addresses
When I'm away from home I ssh in and check my mailbox via Mutt
When I come home, I POP the linux account with Thunderbird
Yet another spam scrub
I read my mail

I very rarely see spam in my inbox and maybe once a month or two will I see something get tagged as spam that shouldn't be.

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A while ago I wondered if I could fetch all my mailboxes to have them in one place before pulling them to my main machine. On top of that, use a spam filter to weed out spam prior to pulling them to my main machine.

Here's where I'm at:

Re-activated Postfix failed

Set the network interface to <local domain> in Postfix

Re-activated Postfix Good Installed Fetchmail Tested against verizon fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed Set 127.0.0.1 localhost in /etc/hosts Tested against verizon Good

Installing spamassassin

Apparently I'm missing how to allow POP access to the machine. It is currently pulling email from two external accounts and I can access them via usermin, but I have yet to POP into the account. The box itself is actively not accepting 110 calls (tested via telnet).

Could not open connection to the host, on port 110

[root@rabbibob foca]# urpmi vm-pop3d

ftp://ftp.caliu.info/pub/distribucions/mandrake/official/2005/i586/media/contrib/vm-pop3d-1.1.6-3mdk.i586.rpm
installing vm-pop3d-1.1.6-3mdk.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing... ### ##########################################
1/1: vm-pop3d #############################################
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/foca

Also, I just read that apt-get is available for Mandrake 10.2

Dealing with Spam

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