Re: [gentoo-user] Handling a sizable amount of spam and Dovecote question

[Dale]

Wols Lists wrote:
>> Well, for the moment, I want to use it for gmail that I'm posting with.
>> My reason for this, Seamonkey is in a iffy state.  I've already started
>> using Firefox and containers for most other things but use Seamonkey
>> mostly for emails.  My hope, set up something local so that I don't lose
>> any older emails and then be able to access those emails with whatever
>> web browser or other tool I want, like Firefox.  Of course, I'd want to
>> be able to send email as well.  Maybe this is a bigger task than I think
>> it is.  Either way, I have Dovecote installed, think it is working but
>> no idea what to do with it.
>>
> Just point your email client at dovecot. Or rather, create an account,
> in your mail client, that points at your dovecot server. Bingo, one
> empty IMAP mail account.

I was hoping to use a web browser like Firefox to access my email.  One
reason for this, I have multiple Firefox profiles.  My hope is that if I
click on a link in Firefox, it will open in the same profile, as a new
tab for example.  I can't see why that wouldn't work.  Thing is, I can't
get Firefox, or any other browser, to connect no matter what I try.  So,
I'm lost.  I don't like Thunderbird at all plus, I'd be depending on
it.  I suspect I could transfer even if I had to move away from Dovecote
for some reason.  I'm not sure about Seamonkey transferring tho.  May be
touchy on that.

>
> Now go into your ISP account in the same mail server, and set up
> client filters to move all your mail across into your local (dovecot)
> account.
>
> That way you don't need postfix, or fetchmail, or any other fancy
> mailer service, you're using your normal mail client to copy your
> emails from your isp down to your local system, and categorise and
> sort them.
>
> I have rules that move all my mailing lists into dedicated folders,
> marketing junk into dedicated folders (that expire), etc etc. I don't
> actually have that much spam, but I have rules that move what I
> recognise straight into "Deleted" :-)
>
> Then your spam filter will end up like mine was at work - "Anything I
> want gets moved into dedicated folders, anything left is probably
> spam". So at regular intervals I just sorted my inbox by subject, and
> bulk-deleted pretty much the lot. When scanning by subject, you tend
> to get multiple spams with the same subject, so any ham will stand out
> because there's just the one ...
>
> (Of course, you could configure fetchmail to collect your mail and
> dump it straight into dovecot ...)
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
>


I already divide my emails into folders.  Example, any email that
contains [gentoo-user] goes to the gentoo-user folder.  Similar for -dev
etc.  I also have folders for things like banking, friends, family,
shopping websites etc etc.  Well over 95% of my emails goes to a folder
other than the general purpose inbox.  Any email that will be a regular
thing gets filtered to something.  Most of what is in the inbox is
either a one time thing or spam.  Right now, I just have it set to emtpy
the trash, a LOT.  Clicking the unsub link is doing no good at all. 
What stupid politician came up with that idea anyway. 

My plan is to have it so I'm not so dependent on Seamonkey.  I want
something, Dovecote for example, that will fetch new emails from gmail,
or any other service if I move, and also allow me to send emails as
well.  The actual emails tho would be here on my puter, as they are now
but at the moment depends on Seamonkey. 

Seamonkey seems to be on its last legs.  It's bad enough that it isn't
maintained much in the tree but I don't think upstream is keeping things
working either.  It needs a rewrite sort of like Firefox did.  Finding
or updating add-ons for Seamonkey is almost non-existant.  Some add-ons
haven't been updated in ages or are not even available at all.  As a
example, I switched from Lastpass to Bitwarden almost a year ago.  I
can't find a Bitwarden add-on for Seamonkey at all.  I'm stuck using
Lastpass which is at a version a few years old.  There's no telling what
security holes it may have.  Even the very common and popular adblock
hasn't been updated in ages.  My concern, losing Seamonkey completely
and losing all my emails with it.  I'd like to have a better way but I'm
not sure I can do that.  This appears to be complicated.

I may search for a video on this.  Maybe watching someone else do this
will helps.  I dunno.  I got the service to start but after that, I'm
clueless. 

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)