mail server setup

[Janina Sajka]

Hi,

I've got my crm set up via my personal ~/.procmailrc . It can also be
setup system wide, however I haven't needed that recently.

The crm home page does discuss site wide deployment:
http://crm114.sourceforge.net/wiki/doku.php

I note one can even use it with Spamassassin. I didn't go that way. I
dropped Spamassassin because it was spawning far too many processes that
were absorbing far too much of my available system resources, so that
other tasks on my server were suffering.

Am I completely happy with the results? No. I still get too many false
positives and consequently still need to look at my spam folder from
time to time. I've white-listed many more email sources than I would
have expected.

However, I see no more than a dozen or so emails in my inbox daily, and
that's a big improvement over what I was getting from Spamassassin.

hth

Janina


covici at ccs.covici.com writes:
> How would you use crm114 for spam filtering?  Also, I am unfamiliar with
> dkim and dmark, -- I do have sendmail -- how would those help?
> 
> Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote:
> 
> > Juan Hernandez writes:
> > > I need webmail, imap, virtual domains, spam/antivirus protection, etc.
> > 
> > Let's take them one at a time ...
> > 
> > webmail
> > This one is easy. Go with squirrelmail .
> > 
> >  imap
> >  Another easy one, dovecot .
> > 
> >  virtual domains
> >  Any mta worth its salt will give you this. It's pretty trivial, e.g. in
> >  sendmail you simply add domains into a config file, one per line. If
> >  need be, you can get more elaborate, e.g. direct mail addressed to
> >  a at b.c. to d at e.f. It's all very doable.
> > 
> >  spam/antivirus protection
> >  This one is more complicated, and more important. I'm sure you're not
> >  interested in becoming an open relay for every spammer on the planet?
> >  So:
> > 
> >  Antivirus -- You probably only care if you have users on Windows.
> >  clamav is my choice for this, though mine is curently broken--I don't
> >  have windows clients.
> > 
> >  anti-spam -- much of this depends on a good mta configuration. Today's
> >  mta's, you'll probably select either sendmail or procmail, set you up
> >  by default with a pretty good configuration. You'll want to carefully
> >  read your way through the config file to understand what's going on.
> >  This is the starting point.
> > 
> >  Next is the process of sorting the mail that arrives into "probably OK"
> >  and "probably junk" piles. People used to rely on spamassassin for
> >  that, but I found it far too resource heavy and stopped using it about
> >  two years ago. I'm now using crm114. And, with Jason White, I'm looking
> >  at possibly moving to rstampd .
> > 
> >  In any case, you'll want to configure dkim and dmark for your mta.
> >  These assist the net in assuring you and everyone else that what you
> >  receive, and what you send is legit.
> > 
> >  Spam is a never ending battle. Expect to need to work on your
> >  configurations and approaches from time to time as the months and years
> >  go by.
> > 
> >  If this sounds daunting, that's probably good. It's not a trivial task,
> >  but it can be fun and certainly can be rewarding. I certainly have no
> >  interest in giving up my setup for some service somewhere else.
> > 
> >  hth
> > 
> >  Janina
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
			sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net
		Email:	janina at rednote.net

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa