On Mon, 2014-05-12 at 11:33 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Any and all advice or suggestions gratefully received, > including pointers to helpful documentation. > I use a similar mail collection chain to your remote set-up except that:
- I use getmail rather than fetchmail to collect email from my ISP. Unlike fetchmail, getmail doesn't leave read but undeleted mail to fester in the ISP's mailbox. Its only drawback, if it is one, is that getmail is run periodically as a cronjob while fetchmail has a built-in wait loop. - I use an MDA script that is basically a pipeline. Its content is: spamc | spamkiller --> sendmail to filter the incoming mail and deliver the ham to Postfix for distribution. The same MDA script worked without modification when I replaced fetchmail with getmail. The '-->' is meant to show that spamkiller executes sendmail each time it has a piece of ham to deliver, rather than using a simple pipeline. - spamkiller is mine: a C program that accepts spamc output and, depending on the score, stuffs it into a quarantine directory or hands it to sendmail for delivery to Postfix. As the program spamkiller uses for onward delivery is specified and configured as part of the spamkiller command line in the MDA script, anything else is easily substituted. Quarantining spam is optional: it can also be configured to discard spam. Either way, it logs the fate of each message. - spamkiller 1.3.4 is available as a tarball that also includes a variety of support scripts should you want to try it. These include quarantine management scripts and logwatch extensions for spam reporting. The tarball is downloadable from the 'Free' page at www.libelle-systems.com - if it looks old that's because I haven't needed to make changes for some time. Martin
