Tim Wunder babbled on about: > I am in need of some enlightenment. What is the purpose of procmail and > how does it relate to sendmail?
Joining this thread late, so probably a repeat. Sendmail is an MTA where procmail is an MDA (or LDA). The difference is transport versus delivery. They are orthogonal to each other > that, I assume that I need procmail. But, if I start using procmail, > what happens to the mail that sendmail distributes to > /var/spool/mail/<user>? Doesn't procmail process the mail and put it in > /home/<user>/mbox? Or can I control where procmail puts stuff? If I use > procmail to process the mail, can I still retrieve it via POP from the > Internet? Is there a better way to process the mail to remove spam? I use fetchmail to 'pop' from my isp mailboxes which delivers it to sendmail. sendmail then sticks it in /var/spool/mail/blah where procmail picks it up, processes it, and puts it back in /var/spool/mail/blah. my mail program then grabs it from there and filters it into whatever folders I want. It's quite doable. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
