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On Jul 7, 2005, at 10:59 PM, Loren Wilton wrote:

> Procmail will act as the pop3 server

Not quite. My belief (and Joanne set this up, so she has the actual details) is that Fetchmail is feeding procmail, possibly going through Sendmail to do this. Procmail has a 2-line recipe that calls SA as part of the delivery process for local deliery to an account on the Linux box.

Fetchmail can deliver to procmail directly, or any MDA for that matter (I've heard of people using maildrop as well).

I don't know if Clam can be integrated using Procmail or not. If it can be executed as a normal Unix stdin-stdout filter, I don't know why it wouldn't be possible to do it that way. So you should (I think!) be able to feed to clam, and then to SA (actually spamd), and have the resulting mail end up sitting in user mailboxes ready to be grabbed by the users using pop3.

If you're interested in doing AV scanning in addition to spam scanning / tagging, then you're probably better off to have fetchmail deliver POP'ed mail to an MTA like Postfix or Exim, and have it do the spam / AV scanning. I use Exim exclusively, and have this exact set up running on my home server for friends and family. Works great.

I don't recall if you said your users are windows-types or unixen, but I'm assuming they are windows users. If you want to enable Bayes with this setup you should be able to do it either per-user or site-wide fairly easily. There is a plethora of information on setting up some imap ham/spam drop boxes that users can easily get to from either OE or Outlook to use for training the Bayes database. Works like a charm here.

Since he's lost the ability to do SMTP-time rejection, what with using fetchmail and all, I'd go with per-user bayes databases. Just make sure your users spend a little time training it up front. You might want to look at a web-based front-end to handle bayes training and per-user settings. Check the wiki for options.

Steven
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http://www.mrchuckles.net


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