On 17 Jul 2003 14:20:22 +1000
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> ISP (where mail sits)
>  |
> FETCHMAIL (grabs the mail from the ISP)

and puts it in the users home dir, ie. they would need a user account on
the server to begin with?

>  |
> PROCMAIL (filters incoming mail through rules for spam)

but procmail does more than just spam filtering, no? I use mailfilter
for that anyway...
 
>  |
<snip for now>
>  |
> (POSTFIX/SENDMAIL) (mail gets tossed here and in user's mbox)
> 
> Each client machine can access the mail from the mail machine using
> either POP3 or IMAP - if they use IMAP, then the mail always lives on
> the mail machine (nice space saver)

But who does the POP3 call from the client machine talk to? What takes
the mail from /home/use/mail to their inbox? Postfix?

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