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Original Post: Poor Man's Spam Filtering Solution
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As I stated 107 days ago, the amount of Spam that I receive is increasing each month. I am using SpamSieve on the client side but this approach still requires me to download the spam and allow Apple's Mail Program to throw it away. While this does save me time, a better approach would be to catch it further up stream. There are modules that I could plug into my mail server to do so but I've found a fairly effective approach that requires little work on my end and zero maintenance.
Steps to drastically reduce spam
Configure my mail server to forward all of my mail to my gmail account
Configure Apple mail to grab my pop mail from gmail
Leave my mail server as the default smtp server for this account
With this solution, gmail becomes my spam filtering software and does one heck of job doing so. This solution also has the added benefit of me viewing my mail online until I pop it down via gmail. It also allows me to look in gmail's spam folder to make sure something didn't get marked as spam incorrectly.
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