John Summerfield wrote:
Gerry Doris wrote:
Tom Horsley wrote:
I have tried to poke around in google for this before,
but never found a satisfactory answer.
Say I'm not running my own server, I don't have a domain name,
i.e., a typical home computer.
Can I configure sendmail to shuffle local mail around to
local mailboxes, and take mail to external addresses
sent by me and direct it to my ISP smtp server (which
needs an SSL connection and user and password
authorization).
Or is there something that can act a lot like sendmail
but is easier to configure to do this sort of thing?
The short answer is that you can do what you want with sendmail. I
used to run my own mail server but it was too much of a pain. My ISP
doesn't allow servers to be run by users and some mail servers will
not accept
snip...
I like to run sendmail on my server as it allows me to use
spamassassin and MailScanner. Between these two programs I only see
one or two spam emails a week (hundreds are screened out and
discarded everyday). I
How much good mail do you discard?
I do not discard email in my mail systems. I refuse to accept it, or I
filter suspected spam into users' spam folder. I have seen false
positives - e*trade is stupid.
I also have a rough filter that drops email that may contain suspect
attachments into users' Windwoes folders.
I don't discard any good mail. In fact, I keep all email received for 2
weeks. After this period it's automatically discarded. Every few days
I do a quick check to ensure there haven't been any false positives. I
use a program to sort the emails by their spamassassin number. A pass
is anything below 5. Email between 5 and 6 is marked as possible spam
but delivered.
In several years I haven't seen a nonspam email above 10. A glance at
the subject and email sender is usually enough to verify it's really
spam. I white list those senders that we want but are normally flagged
as spam (eg. stock newsletters). I rarely blacklist since spammers
change/fake their ip's.
A nice feature of spamassassin is that it builds a database of what
should be considered spam. The more emails processed the more accurate
it becomes. Since this is my home system there are only a few users.
It's relatively easy to eliminate virtually all spam.
