Tim X <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hadron Quark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am using smtpmail package through a gmail smtp server to send email. >> >> But if I use gnus to send a mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" why isnt procmail >> picking it up and diverting it to my local root mmaildir? Procmail does >> its job just fine when I use the Linux commandline "mail" command. >> >> I'm unsure where postfix and smptmail.el fit together. >> >> Any pointers appreciated. >> >> -- > > When using smtpmail, emacs connects directly to the remote smtp server > and totally bypasses your local smtp server (postfix). Your procmail > is probably the default delivery agent for your local smtp server > (this is the standard config these days).
/../ > I recently started using smtpmail because my ISP has placed all their > dynamic IP addresses into various blacklists and messages I sent via > my local smtp server (which was setup as a smarthost that relayed all > non-local mail to my ISP smtp server, would often get rejected by > destination hosts that were using a very strict mail policy which > refuses to accept mail from blacklisted IPs. Many ISPs are doing this > these days to protect themselves from being blacklisted by a customer > who runs a local smtp server which is either misconfigured and gets > abused by a spammer or to send spam themselves. > > I've been running this configuration for a couple of weeks now and it > works quite well. The only downside is that sometimes there can be a > slight delay between sending the mail and getting emacs responding > again - probably due to high loads on the remote smtp server. I have > also configured fetchmail to retrieve my mail from remote imap/pop > mailboxes and hand it directly to procmail. This means I no longer > need to run a mail server at all - which is great as I'm way past > finding maintaining a mail server "fun" and the less I have to > maintain the better. I was running exim as my local mail server as it > is easy to setup. Postfix is probably overkill for a local machine, > unless you have many users and lots of mail traffic. From memory, I > also seem to remember it is a bit difficult to run postfix and NOT > have it run as a daemon listening on prot 25. Many people don't > realise that you only need an smtp server listening on a port if you > are accepting mail from a remote host. Likewise, many people forget > that the mail server (postfix, sendmail, exim etc) don't actually > deliver mail, but instead use a delivery program, such as procmail. Greatly helpful explanations Tim. That's what I do too on the Tx side, although on Rx side I use gnus's POP mail facility and rely on my ISP's fitlering (and manual intervention for training via webmail interface). -- Gernot Hassenpflug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tel: +81 774 38-3866 JSPS Fellow (Rm.403, RISH, Kyoto Uni.) Fax: +81 774 31-8463 www.rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp/radar-group/members/gernot Mob: +81 90 39493924 _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
