RE: [Nolug] Re: SpamAssassin and Dialup

Mark, do you have a configuration procedure for setting up IMAP and SA?

Thanks.
Chris

Joke of the day (no fortune cookie)
This old guy and his wife go to the mall. He sits on a bench while she goes
into a store. A young man with wildly colored spiked hair sits opposite the
old man. The old man stares at him. After a few minutes the young man says
"What are you looking at?" The old man replies, "Well, back in my day a
group of my buddies and I got some hooch and...there was this peacock...and
well I thought you might be my son".

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
Behalf Of Mark A. Hershberger
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:24 PM
To: nolug@joeykelly.net
Subject: [Nolug] Re: SpamAssassin and Dialup

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.
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