On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:39:24 +0100 (GMT/BST) Carlton Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi James, > > I am a newbie to this list so you may wanna take anything I > say with a pinch of salt :) > > I recommend that you install fetchmail on your new Fedora server. > Fetchmail does exactly what it says on the tin. It grabs mail from > a POP/IMAP/SMTP server and passes it on to your local MTA (eg. sendmail). > Here is an extract from the manpage: > > "As each message is retrieved fetchmail normally delivers it via > SMTP to port 25 on the machine it is running on (localhost), just as > though it were being passed in over a normal TCP/IP link" > > Hope that helps. > > Regards ! > > -- > Carlton You hit the nail on the head there Carlton. On my home mail server here (Debian Sarge), I have 5 email accounts all from my ISP, so I have to POP them. I use fetchmail, which delivers them to sendmail, and therefore mimedefang/spamassassin/clamav and then to my maildirs. Works like a charm, and I currently have about a 99% success rate on spam and, since I've had it configured properly, not a single false positive. Oh, and on that note, many thanks to the mimedefang team and list for getting my mail server this successful! Pete _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
