On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:29 am, Tim Wunder wrote: > I am in need of some enlightenment. What is the purpose of procmail and > how does it relate to sendmail? >
Procmail is a deliverer of mail.... It takes an email from sendmail and does the final delivery of it on the local host (or what other processes you might want to do with that mail such as forward it) In your /etc/sendmail.cf you will find (most likely) and Mlocal entry that specifies procmail as the delivery agent. > I've configured sendmail to handle incoming and outgoing mail on my > Caldera 3.1 system (it's running as a webserver and a mailserver and a > workstation). I seem to have correctly configured it so that my 4 users > (wife, 2 sons, and me) all have e-mail accounts and can retrieve and > send mail and everything seems to work just swimmingly. I can also get > access to my mail via POP3 from the outside world (although, I'd rather > use a more secure method, I've run into a roadblock on configuring > secure POP3, but I suspect that should be another thread altogether). > > What I want to do is filter out spam, especially for my youngest, who is > fast approaching 10 years of age (man, I'm getting old...). So, for > that, I assume that I need procmail. But, if I start using procmail, > what happens to the mail that sendmail distributes to > /var/spool/mail/<user>? Doesn't procmail process the mail and put it in > /home/<user>/mbox? Or can I control where procmail puts stuff? If I use > procmail to process the mail, can I still retrieve it via POP from the > Internet? Is there a better way to process the mail to remove spam? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Regards, > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - > http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe > info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 02/21/02 11:39 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
