On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:01:05 -0400 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> On Wednesday 03 September 2003 08:06 am, HaywireMac wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:49:39 -0400 > > > > Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > > > 1. Run Fetchmail as root > > > > So, if I were to follow Stephen's advice and use cron instead of > > inetd, I could just su root and crontab -e to create an entry > > then....? > > Or use Webmin, if you prefer the easy way to do things. Yes, Webmin is a kickass tool, and cron entries still confuse the hell out of me. This way I could configure cron thru Webmin, then see what it spits out to get a better understanding... > > And fetchmail would call Procmail, and then Postfix would > > automagically be waiting when Procmail was done it's business? And > > the hip bone's connected to the... ;-) > > IIRC, Fetchmail can pass mail through Procmail like a filter, like so:? postconnect "procmail"? > after passing through, Procmail adds whatever is called for by the > recipes and then Fetchmail delivers mail back to the local MTA, > Postfix or Sendmail or whichever MTA you are running. Also, Fetchmail > can pass mail to Procmail which can act as an MDA and puts mail > directly into the maildir folders, if that is the way that it is > configured. Not to muddy the waters, but just out of curiosity, I could bypass Postfix completely? > > > and pass the mail off through procmail on the way to Postfix. > > > Procmail runs a /etc/procmailrc recipe as a root service and calls > > > the nkvir recipe through an include file from that recipe. You > > > can also add in Spamassassin and any other filters in this recipe. > > > > Ok, so I had it backwards, it's Procmail *b4* Postfix then... > > Fetchmail to Procmail to Postfix to var/spool/mail to .forward file I read in one "quickstart" guide that a .forward file is unnecessary if using fetchmail...is that correct? > back to Procmail again and into maildir in the /home/user/mail > directory. I think. > > > > > 2. Then the mail goes to Postfix who delivers to local mail box > > > file, > > > > > > /var/spool/mail/user based on aliases or the rewrite done by > > > fetchmail in the .fetchmailrc file ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is jblow > > > here). > > > > Ya, since I'm already with configuring that on fetchmail I would > > probably start there, and learn aliases after. > > I have more than one POP email address. Me too. I'm infamous for it, ;-) > Aliases are useful when you want mail from particular accounts to > pass to specific user accounts. So, mail from one POP might go to > postmaster which is aliased to a specific user account but gets > filtered into a specific folder based on the To info. But again, that can be done in the fetchmailrc, right? I might stick with that for now, just to keep it as simple as possible. > > > > I am looking at sticking to a strictly global config, assuming that > > I will allow for a minimal amount of spam to reach the end user. The > > main thing is to catch *all* attachments that end in .pif, etc. > > > > The occasional bit of annoying spam is OK. > > Then why worry about the second call to Procmail at all. Exactly, I use Mailfilter to delete *definite* no-no's right off the POP server, then Fetchmail --> Postfix --> Procmail will take care of the rest... > Simply pass mail from Fetchmail through Procmail with all filtering > or even pass mail from Fetchmail directly to Postfix which passes mail > through Procmail on the way to the /var/spool/mail file. My own setup > passes mail from Fetchmail to Postfix, through Procmail and then on to > /var/spool/mail. > I find that a spamassassin level of 10 has no false positives and > anything above a 4 is a possible with very few false positives. So > above 10 gets sent to spam, above 4 is flagged for further checking > prior to deletion. Nkvir gets called first before spamassassin so > viruses and nigerian stuff doesn't even make it to spamassassin. I'll add the Spamassassin option in later to *really* kick some spam butt! This is where I am still confused, though. In the procmailrc, I am under the impression that one must specify the maildir like so: MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/joehill but of course, if I am dealing with mail for more than one user, do I just specify /var/spool/mail and Procmail will know which spool to dump it in, or is this where aliases come in? Thanks so much for your time and explanations, I *am* reading the docs at the same time, but as I always say, it is one thing to RTFM, it is another to UTFM! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it. -- Ronald Knox, "Let Dons Delight"
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