Jona wrote: > Hi! > I'm new to this list, this is my first post.
> I'm planning to set up a personal spam filtering gateway. It should > collect mail from several remote POP servers, scan them through amavis > and make them available through an IMAP server. > I managed to figure out how to configure every piece of software > involved, there is only one step that causes a bit of trouble. In fact > there is no need for any MTA in this setup. Amavis will get the mail > from fetchmail using plain SMTP and should pass it to dovecot. > I planned that Amavis would pass the mail on to procmail which stores it > in the MailDir format for dovecot to read it. The problem is that Amavis > doesn't support to relay directly to procmail or any other MDA. That > would mean that I have to use an MTA for the sole purpose of relaying > mail between Amavis and procmail. That's a bit of overkill IMHO. > I read in the documentation that Amavis can call sendmail via the > command line. Is this interface flexible enough to call procmail > instead? Is anybody aware of a wrapper script? > Perhaps there is also an easy way to configure postfix to act as an MDA. > Did anybody have to deal with this kind of setup in the past? > Best regards, > Jona Joachim I might do it like so, which I think might be a typical suggestion: fetchmail-> postfix-> amavisd-new-> postfix-> maildir I would think a very basic postfix setup with something like this might work (send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]): alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases home_mailbox = Maildir/ mydestination = host.example.com, localhost myhostname = host.example.com mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.0/16 myorigin = example.com relayhost = [host.myisp.com] content_filter = smtp-amavis[127.0.0.1]:10024 http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#maildir http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#local_network http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/README.postfix.txt I don't have suggestions on procmail. The configuration above will require some tweaking. Gary V ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
