...making Linux just a little more fun!  Making Your Network
Transparent  By Ben Okopnik  Some months ago, I set up a anti-
spam system on my laptop which I wrote up back in issue #176.
Having it based on my local machine, however, produces a
significant amount of SMTP traffic. Since I wanted to minimize
that load, I copied my .procmailrc, my whitelist, and my
blacklist files to my home directory on the mail server. As a
result, my mail traffic dropped from about 1k messages per day,
plus the round trips to GMail for any emails in the "doubtful"
category, to about 25 (valid) messages per day. This is
especially wonderful since I often have a slow or fragile
connection to the Net, depending on where I happen to be at the
moment.  However, there's still a slight catch: the two list
files mentioned above get updated on a regular basis. That is,
if I get an email from someone and I decide that I'm going to
correspond with that person regularly, I white-list them by
hitting 'Ctrl-W' in Mutt (this, of course, requir