Monday, October 27, 2003
email system for the home network
The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: June 23rd, 2003 contained several pointers to configuring an email system for the home network. In the end I chose Email System for the Home Network, prepared by beowulf. It uses
- postfix as a modern MTA that is compatible with Sendmail
- procmail as a mail delivery agent/filter
- courier-imap as an imap deamon that works with maildir directories
- spamassassin to filter spam. The spamconfig web page simplified the configuration.
Promail looks useful, but I need to spend some more time working out the rules. The following pages look useful:
Biggest issue was setting up crontab for fetching mail. In the end I decided to make the cron job a shell script, and everything worked fine.
After reading this SpamAssassin not as good as before thread, I downloaded RuleDuJour to automatically download new versions of SpamAssassin rulesets. Hopefully this improves performance.
// posted by m @ 10:27 pm 
