Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-12-03 Thread Mike Burger
> Mike Burger wrote: > > I'm running postfix + dovecot on my CentOS server, > together with amavisd, clamd and spamassassin, > following the instructions in > . > As far as I can see it is all working, > but I must admit I'm not clear e

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-30 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/30/2013 04:43 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > Fetchmail (and getmail) don't make use of smtp. As their name > suggests, they get mail, pulling it from a pop or imap server, > whether on your ISP or local server. From there, they might send > it

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-30 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 08:06:49AM -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 07:43:36AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > > Fetchmail (and getmail) don't make use of smtp. As their name suggests, > > Yes it does. > > >>From "man fetchmail" >As each message is retrieved, fetchmai

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-30 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 07:43:36AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > Fetchmail (and getmail) don't make use of smtp. As their name suggests, Yes it does. >From "man fetchmail" As each message is retrieved, fetchmail normally delivers it via SMTP to port 25 on the machine it is runni

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-30 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:35:25PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Cliff Pratt > wrote: > > >> > > Traditional unix programs expect to be able to pipe through an > executable named sendmail when they want to send mail. Postfix > provides such an executable.

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-30 Thread Arun Khan
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm running postfix + dovecot on my CentOS server, > together with amavisd, clamd and spamassassin, > following the instructions in > . > As far as I can see it is all working, > but I must admit I'm no

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-11-30, Les Mikesell wrote: > Traditional unix programs expect to be able to pipe through an > executable named sendmail when they want to send mail. Postfix > provides such an executable.I don't know offhand if fetchmail > pipes through sendmail for local delivery or uses smtp protoc

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Cliff Pratt wrote: > >> >> Why do you insist on calling it the "sendmail emulator"? Sendmail, > postfix, exim and many others applications are merely servers that respond > to and process emails according to the SMTP protocols. There's nothing > special about send

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Mike Burger wrote: > > I'm running postfix + dovecot on my CentOS server, > together with amavisd, clamd and spamassassin, > following the instructions in > . > As far as I can

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Mike Burger wrote: I'm running postfix + dovecot on my CentOS server, together with amavisd, clamd and spamassassin, following the instructions in . As far as I can see it is all working, but I must admit I'm not clear exactly wh

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Mike Burger
> Patrick Lists wrote: > >> On 11/28/2013 10:34 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> I'm running postfix + dovecot on my CentOS server, >>> together with amavisd, clamd and spamassassin, >>> following the instructions in >>> . >>> As far as I can see it is all workin

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 01:23:52PM +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Patrick Lists wrote: > > > On 11/28/2013 10:34 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> I'm running postfix + dovecot on my CentOS server, > >> together with amavisd, clamd and spamassassin, > >> following the instructions in > >>

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick Lists wrote: > On 11/28/2013 10:34 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I'm running postfix + dovecot on my CentOS server, >> together with amavisd, clamd and spamassassin, >> following the instructions in >> . >> As far as I can see it is all working, >> but

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-28 Thread Patrick Lists
On 11/28/2013 10:34 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm running postfix + dovecot on my CentOS server, > together with amavisd, clamd and spamassassin, > following the instructions in > . > As far as I can see it is all working, > but I must admit I'm not clear ex

[CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running postfix + dovecot on my CentOS server, together with amavisd, clamd and spamassassin, following the instructions in . As far as I can see it is all working, but I must admit I'm not clear exactly what path an incoming email travels along. I asked t