MTA issues.

[Robert Slade]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:57 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> Evolution's handling of junk mail is pathetic.  (No "ham" learning,
> for example, and its way of deciding what's spam or not seems to ...
> lack.)  As a result I'd like to set up a mail daemon of some kind --
> preferably one compatible with SpamBayes or the like -- that collects
> my mail for me for later spam processing leaving Evolution merely in
> the role of displaying and sending email on my behalf.  How would I go
> about doing all this?  I tried fetchmail but can't figure out even the
> basics of getting it to work.  (Fetchmailconf made things worse, not
> better, in this regard.  To be polite it doesn't conform to GNOME HIG
> at all....)
> 
> Is there an MTA available that doesn't require me to spend hours and
> hours of decoding "docs" to set up?
> 
> --
> Michael T. Richter
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Michael,

The sort answer is no. If you use fetchmail that will download from a
pop3 or imap box and hand off to your MTA - Ubuntu has postfix
installed. Postfix is not too difficult to setup to handle mail. To deal
with spam I suggest spamassassin , it does have a Bayses capability and
a learning one too. You will need to pass the mail trough it before
delivering to the mailboxes. I would also suggest Clamav for virus
checking.

I actually run a mail server (QMAIL) on a different machine - in my case
I set it up as per this http://www.qmailrocks.org/

Hope this gives you some ideas.

Rob