On Mon, 2007-01-01 at 12:06 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi List; > > I run around 7-10 laptops & desktops at any given time in my home/home-office > network. All of them are Linux boxes. I am getting overwhelmed with SPAM, I > use Kmail and spamassassain, we also run thunderbird email. > > I'm thinking that the best solution my be to setup my own "internal" mail > server, have the mail server pull all my various email accounts, then use > procmail filtering to eliminate and report on spammers. At that point my > local boxes (or even remote laptops via an ssh tunnel) can get their > respective mail spam free (for the most part). > > I have 2 questions. > > 1) is this a sound plan? or is there a better way to go? > > 2) If this is a good method then where can I find a good tutorial on how to > setup a Linux mail server and configure it to pull from the various ISP's as > well as a good tutorial on procmail? > > > Thanks in advance ---- 1. I would recommend it 2. I would recommend brennan's home server howto... http://www.brennan.id.au/ this uses sendmail/dovecot, neither of which I use but you gotta start somewhere Craig