Dealing with Spam

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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.

Older Stuff

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