email gateway?

Red-Squirrel

Is this a possible thing to do - have a email gateway that is like a local pop server, but when you check mail on it, it just downloads it from a non local account, but at the same time scans for spam? I find it would be cool to setup something like this in my house in order to filter spam before it even reaches computers, and it would also save from setting up rules on every single account. (I have like 6 accounts upstairs, my parants have 1 downstairs).

Is there a linux program that would do this? I want to setup like a 486 or something running some small enough distro. I'm a linux newbie so I'll be able to learn more as I get this going, too.

septimus

Sounds like that is some kind of email proxy... I'm pretty sure that it is possible to do that, but no software comes to mind hehe. Perhaps an exchange connector or something?

Red-Squirrel

Kind of ironic, I was searching google to see how well my article did and found this post... I figured out how to do the gateway thing so I made an article. (it's on my site)

kryyst

I use something like that at work to spoof local email accounts from 1 real mail account.

So there are 2 ways you can do it. The easiest is just to run SpamBayes read up on it in the spam thread in the general software forum on here. It's a plug in that can either run directly in Outlook (not outlook express) or as a proxy service that will track mail before it hits a pop3 or html mail service. It'll classify spam and filter it however you want.

The other way is to run Mercury mail server. You can set it up as a mail server that will grab mail from an extermnal POP3 mail account bring it in and then pass it to your system. It has spam filter rules but for even more spam filters you can also run SpamBayes in front of it which is what I do at work.