[MlMt] SPAM on iPhone

[Vlad Ghitulescu]

On 4 Oct 2018, at 17:20, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 4 Oct 2018, at 10:22, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
>
>> On 4 Oct 2018, at 12:00, Philip Paeps wrote:
> [...]
>>> The only way to make this work reliably is to filter serverside.
>>
>> I didn't think seriously about this because I didn't have the problem 
>> and SpamSieve was more than enough… but now I should probably 
>> reconsider.
>> How does this work?
>> Is this something that my ISP / domain-provider has to switch on or 
>> is it something I should install server-side?
>
> It varies widely. The general rule is that server-side filtering has 
> to be made available by whoever administers your MTA and/or your IMAP 
> server. How you interact with it is an "implementation-specific" 
> detail...
>
> Typically, server-side filtering of mail into various IMAP mailboxes 
> is done at delivery time so if it is available, it is a function of 
> the delivery agent that operates between the SMTP server that accepts 
> the mail and the mailstore from which the IMAP server serves it to 
> you. If you have a shell login on your mail server, you may have the 
> option of using "procmail" which is one of the oldest and still most 
> widely used filtering tools, despite it having been abandoned in 
> disgust and shame by its own creator many years ago. A more modern 
> possibility is an implementation of the Sieve filtering language, 
> often remotely manageable via a web interface or a ManageSieve (RFC 
> 5804) implementation. Some providers (e.g. GMail, Office365) offer 
> their own server-side filtering tools accessed through their web 
> interfaces.

Ok, I'll check mit my domain-provider.
Thanks, Bill!


Regards,
Vlad