[Nolug] Re: SpamAssassin and Dialup

From: Mark A. Hershberger <mah_at_everybody.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:24:17 -0500
Message-ID: <87isnoy9mm.fsf@weblog.localhost>

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> (Even if I was running SA, the emails would still get downloaded,
> wasting bandwidth.)

Not if you use IMAP.

Set up SA to stuff all marked mail in a separate folder.

Further, a correctly written IMAP client doesn't download the whole
email automatically. It'll get the headers and download emails
individually. Even if SA left spam in your inbox, you could tell your
client to delete SA-marked email without actually downloading the
email.

So, yeah, IMAP and SA work pretty well over dialup.

That said, the correct solution to the problem of the overwhelming
number spam emails is a virus scanner on the server.

Mark.
___________________
Nolug mailing list
nolug@nolug.org
Received on 09/19/03

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : 12/19/08 EST