Thanks a lot thats a great suggestion. I think your soln will work. I want to know what exactly i have to give in .forward file?
Some clarifications pls give your important suggetions. If iam fetching mail using fetchmail and directly forwarding it to internel Exchange Server. According to your soln i need to have two internel mailserver ie one Linux and another Exchange right. Pls let me know your valueable comments on this hopeing for your reply On 4/14/05, Bopolissimus Platypus Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/13/05, Aravind gv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Iam having a unique problem. I want to fetch all mails from my > > externel mailserver to linux box scan for virus and spam and then want > > to send it to internel MS Exchange Mail Server. > > i know by Fetchmail we can downlaod to linux box. But after that how > > to pass it to exchange server. > > > > Today's Topics: > > <snip *far* too much stuff> > > please follow anuerin diaz' advice on trimming your email. it's OK to use > digest mode if that's how you like reading mailing lists, but please don't > subject the rest of us to the digest. > > things to try: > > .forward > create a .forward file in your home directory that contains the email > address > (internal) that you want to forward to. > > then send mail to yourself (maybe spam, or something with a virus in it) at > the > external address, run fetchmail to fetch it, then check your exchange server > > to see if it's there already. if it is, then .forward worked. if it > isn't, then wait a > bit or look in the logs. > > i think this will work for you. but i'm not clear on the sequence in > which things > happen at your SMTP server. if it processes .forward BEFORE trying to > scan for viruses and spam, then this won't work. the email will get > forwarded, > but it won't be spam/virus free. at a previous job i had a system like this > and > it worked well. so if it doesn't work for you, you probably need to post > SMTP > and virus/spam scanner configs so people can see why it might be failing. > email to > > if .forward doesn't work, then you can try procmail (man procmail, man > procmailex). > there, even if your SMTP server doesn't have mailscanner or similar support > for > automatically checking for viruses and spam, you can do the checking in > procmail. the config is more complicated than .forward, but you'll > manage. there > are lots of examples online. google is your friend. > > tiger > > -- > Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" > Mene sakhet ur-seveh > -- Aravind GV Ph-9886730095 -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
