How to setup a Linux mail server?

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:06 PM -0700 1/1/07, Kevin Kempter wrote:
>Hi List;
>
>I run around 7-10 laptops & desktops at any given time in my home/home-office
>network. All of them are Linux boxes.  I am getting overwhelmed with SPAM, I
>use Kmail and spamassassain, we also run thunderbird email.
>
>I'm thinking that the best solution my be to setup my own "internal" mail
>server, have the mail server pull all my various email accounts, then use
>procmail filtering to eliminate and report on spammers.
 ...

If by "report on" you mean send emails back toward the forged source
addresses, well, don't do that.  Bouncing can only be done during the
original SMTP transaction.  Any fake "bounce" after that is a new message
that is itself spam.  I get almost as many of those as real spam, and I'm
thinking of doing something about it:  blacklisting every source of them.
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