Benedict Verheyen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Andrei Popescu schreef: > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> 1.) What is 'reinjection in a mail queue'? Where can I learn how this > >> differs from whatever is being done by fetchmail as an example case? > >> Or does fetchmail also do reinjection in a mail queue? > > > > As I understand it, the pop3/imap protocols were created to allow a > > mail client to retrieve the mail and present it to the user. Fetchmail > > instead is feeding it back to a mail server through port 25. > > In my case, i use fetchmail in daemon mode without problems but > apperently, there is some ugliness with bounced messages when using > reinjection. Not sure how or what that entails but i would also like to > know what the exact problem is. > > I've had a look at getmail and it's indeed easy to setup & have cron > check the mail, but, with fetchmail the spam & virus checking is done > from exim.
It doesn't have be. Take a look at the mailfilter package. It scans the Pop server for spam prior to running fetchmail so deletes it at the server and never downloads it. >From the apt-cache show mailfilter: <quote> With Mailfilter you can define your own filters (rules) to determine which e-mails should be delivered and which are considered waste. Rules are Regular Expressions, so you can make use of familiar options from other mail delivery programs such as e.g. procmail. <close quote> I used that for a year or so and got the spam down by 90%. I am now running a murx (not yet packaged for debian) and I now see only 1-2 spam mails a day. murx is at <http://murx.sourceforge.net> Murx has expanded filtering and seems to be faster then mailfilter. Wayne -- "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." -- Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal _______________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
