Email getting and sending

[John Thompson]

Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 02:57, Juan L. Pastor wrote:
>
>>I'm currently using evolution and my ISP pop3 and smtp servers to get
>>and send emails. I usually get lots of spam/virus emails and I'd like to
>>get rid of them. I want to take advantage of this and learn to setup
>>sendmail. What programs can you advise to get and send emails? I have a
>>dynamic IP address with ADSL connection and several email accounts (3
>>with my ISP, another one in yahoo, another one in gmx.net).


> If you want to get rid of spam you need to configure spamassassin and
> use it as a filter in evolution.  setting up sendmail will not do that
> for you on its own.  

Another option would be to use a mail client with a built-in filter; 
e.g. "ThunderBird" (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/)


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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)