Re: Best practise question: getmail and unwanted emails

"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:38:19 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
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Am 09.11.20 um 23:11 schrieb RW:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 18:47:34 +0100 [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> But what's the best way for filtering out missed spam when getmail is
>> fetching them to IMAP/dovecot? Any best practices you could / may
>> want to share?
> 
> A good way is to configure a spam filter, such as SpamAssassin, as a
> getmail filter. Set it up so it just adds headers. Then have getmail
> send the mail directly to dovecot-lda. Sieve can then file spam into a
> spam folder.  You probably don't need anything else.
> 
> Using getmail filters and delivering to a delivery agent is well
> documented.
> 
> Once you have that set up you can't look into setting-up training
> folders so that you can train whichever filter you use from your email
> client.
> 
> If you use SpamAssassin I wouldn't recommend the dovecot antispam
> plugin, but it's OK  for bogofilter.
> 
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Thanks, "RW", and thanks, Martin Gregorie,
lot of interesting starting points to read further, great!

Regards,
Michael