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Spamassassin for Remote IMAP (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Edit: nevermind. Turns out my email host is already running spamassassin and I can configure it how I wish.

My email is hosted at mxroute. I'm happy with their pricing and service and don't want to selfhost my email. However, their spam management isn't great.

I just realised that it might be possible to run spamassassin myself, which will set spam headers on the emails which my email client (thunderbird) can then use to decide what to do.

There seems to be a bunch of poorly maintained / abandoned ways in which to do this. I thought I'd ask here just in case any one else is doing this and can help me skip to the end.

I was hoping for a docker container (or compose stack) that provides an IMAP proxy and runs spamassassin.

Any ideas and insights welcome. My email juggling could use some improvement.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Nowadays rspamd is used instead of Spamassassin. Maybe that one has tools to do what you want.

[–] non_burglar 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

These projects are poorly maintained and abandoned because the industry of email has been reduced to a very few players, and they don't care about IMAP standards, dmarc, dkim or any of it.

You're running head on into the primary reason no one self-hosts email anymore; it has gone from being a nuisance to being adversarial.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Indeed.

The whole mess seems to have gotten so much worse.