Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:18:36 +0000 From: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net> Subject: Re: Mail filtering at server Message-ID: <1137320316.16098.21.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43C9D51D.5080503@ywave.com> References: <43C93519.1040309@gmx.net> <43C9D51D.5080503@ywave.com>
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On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 04:52, Micah wrote: > Frank Staals wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 5-stable and I'm using the system as mailserver, so > > I set up sendmail using this guide: > > http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html as imap server > > I'm using imap-uw. Now I would like to do the following: > > > > 1) I would like to get all mail from questions@freebsd.org in a seperate > > directory. Currently I do this by filtering my mail in the mailclient ( > > Thunderbird ). The directory it uses for this is currently > > ~/mail/Questions/ so I would like to keep that, how can I do this ? Can > > I add this to /etc/mail/access ? what would then be the syntax ? > > I actually switched from IMAP-UW (ironic because I'm a UW student) to > Cyrus-IMAP to manage my personal email. Cyrus has a built in filtering > language called Sieve which works really well for moving my list and RSS > feeds into proper IMAP folders. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html > seems to suggest procmail can do this too. > > > 2) I would also like to filter my mail for spam, again: currently I set > > up thunderbird to do this: the mail marked as spam/junk dissapears into > > the junk folder: ( ~/mail/junk ) What is the best way to set this up ? > > can this be done by sendmail itself or should I install an other program > > from the portstree > > I actually haven't tackled this one yet. Try looking through > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html with a keyword of spam. > > HTH, > Micah Try spamassassin. Rob
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