[ale] IMAP spam filtering

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Tue Aug 12 15:07:49 EDT 2003


On Tuesday 12 August 2003 12:10 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 11:53, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 August 2003 10:50 am, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > Mailscanner/spamassassin/f-prot is a great combo. squashes the spam,
> > > handles the virus/web-bugs and works well with both sendmail and
> > > postfix. And it has good docs, too.
> >
> > Does mail scanner do IMAP?
>
> Mailscanner handles the incomming mail. It doesn't matter whether the
> client side is pop or imap. Once spamassassin get's done, a procmail
> rule to filter on {spam?} will put it in the right folder. Squirrelmail
> can also do it if you like web interfaces on email. It uses imap.

Procmail can speak IMAP?  That's news to me.

> > I think I wasn't clear.  I know about spamassassin/bogofilter/vipul's
> > razor.  What I don't know is how to deal with the IMAP aspect.  If the
> > mail is apparently spam I want to move it from the inbox to my spam
> > folder on the IMAP server.

It looks like imapassassin does what I want.  I haven't tried it yet, but 
it looks easy to use.  I found it through freshmeat.

Michael

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