Relaying ISP email through my own email server?

I'm getting roughly 300 spam emails per month on my ISP email account. Obviously its driving me nuts.

I have a linux server and a windows server at my disposal.

I had an idea to download the email from the ISP direct onto one of these servers as a relay and then have that receiving mail server relay the mail to my email client/phone

In this way, I can set the relay server's spam sensitivity to a point where it will possibly reduce the amount of spam that I'm getting on a daily basis before the emails get to me.

I wanted to find out if this sort of thing is possible. If it is, how can I achieve it?

Ortund

Posted 2016-09-20T06:18:16.073

Reputation: 272

I actually laughed and spit out my drink. I would love 300 a month. I probably getting 300 spam messages a day. Thank god for spam filters. – Keltari – 2016-09-20T06:41:17.393

It doesn't seem like your spam filters are doing you much good if you're getting 300 spam emails a day... – Ortund – 2016-09-20T07:01:32.727

1oh they are going to the spam folder. i never see them. – Keltari – 2016-09-20T07:07:10.730

I have all of my spam going there as well... unfortunately my mail client also chucks everything else into the spam folder while its busy – Ortund – 2016-09-20T07:09:58.407

Answers

If you don't mind using gmail, get a free account and add the ISP mail settings to its list of accounts to poll. This will filter out the spam - Either forward the gmail account to another or use the gmail account.

JohnnyVegas

Posted 2016-09-20T06:18:16.073

Reputation: 2 820

So if I understand you correctly, you're saying to let gmail get the mail and then I add gmail to my mail client. – Ortund – 2016-09-20T07:01:01.910

@Ortund exactly! Personally I've found never to actually use ISP emails as you never know when they might decide to get rid of them/close them down/or you might change ISP. This would allow you to migrate to gmail easily if you wanted to as well. – djsmiley2k TMW – 2016-09-20T07:02:38.963

Well, the damn thing keeps asking me for my password to log in to imap.googlemail.com and I know I've typed the credentials correctly... So this isn't going very well – Ortund – 2016-09-20T07:09:23.977

Don't forget to actually allow password authentication for IMAP.

– user1686 – 2016-09-20T08:38:31.053

What email client are you using? There are specific instructions for each client online - They use different port settings to most other email providers, and autodetect settings doesn't work in most cases. – JohnnyVegas – 2016-09-20T11:31:39.510