<div dir="ltr">I ran spamassassin years ago and it was really good. Far better than any client "junk" filtering or Barracuda Spam FIREWALL! (Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!) nonsense. I typically ran a handful of the extra filter sets and updated them every couple of months.<div>
<br></div><div style>One of the things that I really liked besides that it worked well, was that it showed the scoring method used to classify each message, allowing me to make small adjustments as I needed. That is one thing that always annoys me about client junk filtering in Apple Mail, Outlook etc. No idea why it classifies a message as junk when it shouldn't and vice versa.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Rob Stampfli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:res@colnet.cmhnet.org" target="_blank">res@colnet.cmhnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:36:04AM -0400, Scott Merrill wrote:<br>
> I've been kicking around the idea of migrating my email off of Google<br>
> Apps. I'd lose a fair bit of integrated functionality on which I've<br>
> come to rely, I realize, but I think there may be some long-term<br>
> benefits to being responsible for my own communications.<br>
<br>
</div>I use sendmail as the MTA for my <a href="http://cboh.org" target="_blank">cboh.org</a> domain, since that's what<br>
I've always used and know my way around. Postfix is probably a similar<br>
setup. I have two MX addresses, homed to virtual servers for the<br>
<a href="http://cboh.org" target="_blank">cboh.org</a> domain. When a message is received for me, it is forwarded<br>
to a local MTA on my local LAN. The forwarding is done on an unusual<br>
port and relies on my local external IP address not being vary labile,<br>
but that has not been a problem here since I switched to WOW, even<br>
though it is nominally a dynamic address. (It did become a problem<br>
with Insight -- long story -- and was the driving force behind my<br>
switching providers.) The LAN server's /var/mail directory is then<br>
mounted on my local Linux boxes via NFS, or is directly accessible<br>
via ssh/mutt.<br>
<br>
I use a combination of greylisting, DNSBL, pre-greeting, and clamav on<br>
the virtual servers. Have toyed with the idea of adding something like<br>
spamassassin, but never gotten around to studying it enough to understand<br>
how to incorporate it. Also, even if someone might devine the private<br>
port number, the local server is further protected by rules that only let<br>
it respond to the IP addresses of my external servers.<br>
<br>
On the whole, it works well, but it does come with a significant amount<br>
of administrative overhead. I'm fairly sure, though, that no one is<br>
reading my emails over my shoulder.<br>
<br>
Scott, if you have any interest in what I'm doing, or would like to see<br>
how all of this is achieved in a sendmail configuration, feel free to<br>
contact me off-line.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Rob<br>
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