On Friday 26 November 2004 23:23, JoeHill wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 16:22:11 -0600
>
> Chris disseminated the following:
> > Realizing this is OT, I'm confused and have some questions. If someone
> > can help please mail me off list as I don't want to get the current list
> > Nazi after me :)
>
> I don't see this as OT at all, though it's been covered quite a bit in past
> threads and there are innumerable how-to's on the web. However, I'm kinda
> thinkin' of switchin' from some very complicated Procmail filters to
> something simpler, so I wouldn't mind seeing this thread expand.
>
> Fetchmail is pretty simple. Install it, run 'fetchmailconf', yer done. If
> you have Postfix installed ('urpmi postfix' if you don't), then you've
> already arrived at the point where you can start the anti-spam thang.
> Fetchmail will automagically hand off to Postfix, which will call Procmail,
> which would then call whatever recipes/processes you want to implement to
> deal with spam, and then deliver the mail accordingly.
>
> Aaaaand now, I will save Derek the trouble of posting a link to his page:
>
> http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html
The only thing I would add is if you install fetchmail-daemon fetchmail will
automatically run every 3 minutes using the configuration
in /etc/fetchmailrc.
If you install just fetchmail it will not run automatically. You would need to
set up a cron job or something.
Also the test in fetchmailconf will not work while the daemon is running. You
have to stop the daemon first.
derek
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