[CLUE-Talk] email filtering

[Grant Johnson]

What I do is, once again, fetchmail.  It gets delivered to my hosting 
company, then every 10 minutes, my machine grabs and sorts it, delivering 
it locally.  If my connection is down (rare), or my machine is off (nearly 
never) I still get my mail.

fetchmail and procmail together can be a powerful duo.  The reason I do 
procmail rather than multi-drop in fetchmail is that my hosting service 
messes up the envelopes.  Oh, well, at least they are cheap.

At 10:44 AM 01/19/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>dyndns handles the MX records, I have thought about what happens when
>my machine is not available, but not sure what I can do about that,
>it's up most of the time.  Perhaps if I set up a backup on someone
>elses machine.  The aliasing is the part I haven't really researched
>yet.  I'm moving next month, and it's not something I plan on doing
>until after that.  But I really like the idea of trying to track where
>my spam comes from.
>
>Brandon
>--- Michael Clark <mclark at techangle.com> wrote:
> > Brandon
> >
> > Do you mean that you want to run a full blown email server, for just
> > your
> > personal domain, on your home machine??
> >
> > First of all, you have to have the MX records setup correctly for
> > your
> > domain (I have no idea how dyndns.org does DNS)
> >
> > Second of all, you have to consider what happens to the mail when you
> > are
> > not connected (could be a router, could be your phone line, etc)
> >
> > I have setup sendmail to handle virtual domains, with the
> > /etc/virtusertable (and a 'makemap hash virtusertable <
> > virtusertable.db'),
> > but that is a lot of work for one domain.
> >
> > I would probably use /etc/aliases to setup each alias individually
> > (can you
> > use wild-cards in /etc/aliases??), but you still have to have a mail
> > server
> > (sendmail, postfix, qmail) to negotiate with other smtp servers.  I
> > am only
> > familiar with sendmail, which is a beast, so I can't comment on the
> > others.
> >
> > hope that helps
> >
> > mc
> >
> > Brandon N wrote:
> >
> > > While on the subject, here is something I've been thinking about
> > for a
> > > while now:
> > > I have an always on DSL connection, and a Domain name through
> > > dyndns.org
> > > I would like to be able to set up my email, preferably with
> > anything
> > > other that sendmail, to accept mail from any address at my domain,
> > > basically *@colorado.dyndns.org  and put it all in one mailbox,
> > unless
> > > a specific user exists.  Once that is set up, I can filter my email
> > > based on who it is sent to.
> > >
> > > Why do all this?
> > > To track spam.  if Ebay want my email address, I give them
> > > bneill-ebay at colorado.dyndns.org   Now any email that I recieve to
> > this
> > > address I know they got the address from ebay.  It would be
> > interesting
> > > to find out exactly where people are getting my address from.
> > >
> > > Brandon
> > >
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