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John H Palmieri <palmieri@math.washington.edu> writes:

> Speaking of spam, when I'm at work, I can run spamassassin and
> everything is pretty much okay.  At home, though, I get all of my mail
> from a pop server.  That is, my home machine receives no mail, so I
> can forward incoming mail through procmail until I'm blue in the face,
> but of course it has no effect.  What can I do to filter spam (or tag
> spam) with this setup?

A different approach than those posted might be to investigate
alternative pop servers.  Mine allows a fairly complex filter setup
right at the source.  (Newsguy).  I can set as many filters as I like
that simply delete unwanted stuff or forward it to an address of my
choice.

It has web pages where this is done.