On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 10:38 am, Frankie wrote: > If you install fetchmail on your system and configure it to collect > your pop3 mail.. > > it will by default hand your mail to postfix which will pass it to > procmail for local delivery.. > > I have been doing it that way for ages.. > > Here is an example .fetchmailrc > > set postmaster "postmaster" > set bouncemail > set no spambounce > set daemon 1000 > set logfile /var/log/mail/fetchmail > > poll pop.xxx.xxx.com with proto POP3 > user 'xxxxxxx' there with password 'xxxxxxxx' is 'franki' > here options fetchall > > That will run fetchmail as a daemon and it will check for mail > every 1000 seconds. > any mail it collects is handed to postfix. (which on my system uses > amavis-new, > Trend filescan for linux and Spamassassin to scan the mail for spam > and viri) > and then postfix hands the mail to procmail for local delivery. > (which the other > machines on your lan can use pop3 to collect.) > > hope that helps.. > > > regards > > Franki > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JoeHill > Sent: Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and POP3 > > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:14:22 -0300 > > "Cody Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Isn't that what pop is? It "holds" mail until you want to > > "download" it...oops...i guess i didn't mean to quote > > download...ah well. > > No, I want to have Postfix retrieve the mail from my ISP's POP3 > server, then hold it on my server. > Franki - how do you handle false-positives from SpamAssassin? I presume that you somehow filter the marked messages to a junk folder? How do you then get a false positive accepted and forwarded to the correct recipient?
Anne
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
