Mail filtering at server

[Robert Slade]

On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 04:52, Micah wrote:
> Frank Staals wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I'm running FreeBSD 5-stable and I'm using the system as mailserver, so 
> > I set up sendmail using this guide: 
> > http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html as imap server 
> > I'm using imap-uw. Now I would like to do the following:
> > 
> > 1) I would like to get all mail from questions at freebsd.org in a seperate 
> > directory. Currently I do this by filtering my mail in the mailclient ( 
> > Thunderbird ). The directory it uses for this is currently 
> > ~/mail/Questions/ so I would like to keep that, how can I do this ? Can 
> > I add this to /etc/mail/access ? what would then be the syntax ?
> 
> I actually switched from IMAP-UW (ironic because I'm a UW student) to
> Cyrus-IMAP to manage my personal email. Cyrus has a built in filtering
> language called Sieve which works really well for moving my list and RSS
> feeds into proper IMAP folders. 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html
> seems to suggest procmail can do this too.
> 
> > 2) I would also like to filter my mail for spam, again: currently I set 
> > up thunderbird to do this: the mail marked as spam/junk dissapears into 
> > the junk folder: ( ~/mail/junk ) What is the best way to set this up ? 
> > can this be done by sendmail itself or should I install an other program 
> > from the portstree
> 
> I actually haven't tackled this one yet. Try looking through 
> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html with a keyword of spam.
> 
> HTH,
> Micah

Try spamassassin. 

Rob