On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 08:02:08 +0530
"L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> I think you should write a howto in detail. I will be happy to receive
> it.
Seriously, it's as I described it. About the only thing I would add to
it would be 'read man fetchmail' for sample configs and everything you
On Thursday 17 July 2003 04:54, JoeHill wrote:
> On 17 Jul 2003 14:20:22 +1000
Sorry Stephen and Folks!
I hadn't seen this before sending the help request!
In case you get, please just ignore it!
Now for the REAL doubt!
> Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > ISP (where mail sits)
>
On Thursday 17 July 2003 00:28, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
Hi! Stephen! and Folks!
This JUST what I want to do!
The problem is I'm just a wannabe techie!
I can put several things into work but, this ONE I can't 'till now!
My server is all set but I can't read email from it (from a any other machi
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 6:33 pm, JoeHill wrote:
> No problems now, finally got my head around it thanks to all for the
> help. It was dead easy, in the end.
>
> 1. Install imap package.
> 2. Configure users on server
> 3. Configure fetchmail
>
> Done.
>
> Took me the whole day, of course, and about 3
or a freebie... much better
then the network associates vscan I was using before,,, (admitadly an old
version).
the web interface is an exceptional feature...
#
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Laulusa-D
David Laulusa-D28 wrote:
Here's the link to download FileScan for Linux.
http://www.trendmicro.com.au/member/Products/up_other.htm
Franki, you mentioned that the virus engine was updateable. Does that
mean that I can download the virus engine for FileProtect for Linux
(which is the new non-fre
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:37:49AM +0800, Frankie wrote:
> Todd,
>
> Trend filescan for linux is free..
>
> I have been using it for several years.. its great.
> and trophie is free also, its what turns filecan into a daemonised scanner.
>
> If you can't find filescan, let me know and I can put
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 05:37:49AM +0800, Frankie wrote:
> If you can't find filescan, let me know and I can put the tarball up for
> you.
>
> on the amavis homepage (not the amavis-new one, I mean amavis.org) in the
> contrib section is a post from me on how to get it, how to install it on
> mand
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:51:42 +0800
"Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> However, if after alot of fiddling you find postfix is just not
> working as it should be, remove it and reinstall... I remember on the
> list and experianced it myself where the postfix installed during
> setup was missin
D]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JoeHill
Sent: Friday, 18 July 2003 8:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and POP3
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:14:45 +0800
"Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> If I might ask,, why did you load on the courier rpm??
>
>
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 18:22, ed tharp wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 11:09, JoeHill wrote:
> > On 17 Jul 2003 20:00:11 +1000
> > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> >
> > > Starting at $20/mo or half-oz for half'a'year!
> >
> > Good one, I nearly spewed my coffee when I read this!
> >
>
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 18:18, JoeHill wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:51:46 -0400
> JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
>
> > Tried going in by IP, user and pass, no go.
> >
> > This imap package, is there a site for docs and FAQs?
>
> aah ha ha ha ha, it works! it *really works*! I am so ex
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 11:09, JoeHill wrote:
> On 17 Jul 2003 20:00:11 +1000
> Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
>
> > Starting at $20/mo or half-oz for half'a'year!
>
> Good one, I nearly spewed my coffee when I read this!
>
> Oh, shit, I could really get into that. I'll even write a for
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:51:46 -0400
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Tried going in by IP, user and pass, no go.
>
> This imap package, is there a site for docs and FAQs?
aah ha ha ha ha, it works! it *really works*! I am so excited, I'm
gonna...I'm gonna... gonna send some more test e-
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:21:04 +0100
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Shouldn't that last line be :-
> poll pop2.sympatico.ca with proto POP3
> user 'b1bhxi89' there with password 'xxx' is 'test0001' here
> options
> nokeep
that was it!! good eye son, I never caught that, thank
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:31:42 +0100
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> It was me who recommended courier-imap-pop because it allows you to
> use a different username/password to your regular login. Since pop3
> gives usernames/passwords in plain text it can be a security risk.
Gotcha. I
On Friday 18 Jul 2003 1:11 am, JoeHill wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:14:45 +0800
>
> "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > If I might ask,, why did you load on the courier rpm??
> >
> > the only time I have done that was for imap..
> >
> > As far as pop3 goes, the normal imap rpm contains a
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 9:36 pm, JoeHill wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:40:05 +0100
>
> Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > Postfix will pass the mail to Procmail if it exists, or will put the
> > mail in the mailbox defined in /etc/postfix/main.cf home_mailbox
> > parameter
>
> So far
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 06:14:45 +0800
"Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> If I might ask,, why did you load on the courier rpm??
>
> the only time I have done that was for imap..
>
> As far as pop3 goes, the normal imap rpm contains a perfectly
> good pop3 server that is widely used, well doc
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:43:59 -0400
Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
>
> I just don't know about the postmaster stuff in fetchmailrc. I leave
> that stuff alone as I figure most of it is set up in /etc/aliases.
> Since you're not retrieving mail for postmaster, I'd assume you should
> leav
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:45:24 -0400
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:08:18 -0400
> Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
>
> > > ok, so far I've got the server collecting mail from the ISP for a
> > > test account I set up. however, the mail did not go to
> > > /var/s
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:53:49 +1000
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 22:21, Todd Slater wrote:
> > But now that same server is acting as a relay for a CMS, and
> > students have a need to send attachments. Since I can't just strip
> > all attachments, I'm thinking I
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 03:11, JoeHill wrote:
> Ok, here's my plan so far:
>
> Run fetchmail as a system service (initrd?) at boot, I assume I need
> then a *systemwide* .fetchmailrc, ie it will include all users and
> accounts, correct? Okay, so Postfix is already running, *it* will
> receive on p
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 22:21, Todd Slater wrote:
> Yeah, at work I'm running mailing lists with Mailman and I pipe all that
> mail through stripmime.pl so *no* attachments go through. (It has the
> added benefit of converting html to plain text, something like lynx
> -dump.)
Altermime can do the s
Trend filescan is a virus scanner for linux..
Trend wrote it a fair while ago, and back then there
wasn't a big market for linux virus scanners.. so they
gave it away free on their site..
It uses the same virus pattern files as all their other scanners
and the engine is the same engine as the uni
to /etc/fetchmailrc and give that a shot.
see how that does it for you..
rgds
Franki
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JoeHill
Sent: Friday, 18 July 2003 5:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and POP3
On Thu, 17 Jul
- Original Message -
From: "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Postfix and POP3
> Todd,
>
> Trend filescan for linux is free..
What's that?
>
> I have been usi
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:08:18 -0400
Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > ok, so far I've got the server collecting mail from the ISP for a
> > test account I set up. however, the mail did not go to
> > /var/spool/mail/test0001, it went to /var/spool/mail/joehill.
>
> you created user test0
Todd,
Trend filescan for linux is free..
I have been using it for several years.. its great.
and trophie is free also, its what turns filecan into a daemonised scanner.
If you can't find filescan, let me know and I can put the tarball up for
you.
on the amavis homepage (not the amavis-new one,
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:40:05 +0100
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
>
> Postfix will pass the mail to Procmail if it exists, or will put the
> mail in the mailbox defined in /etc/postfix/main.cf home_mailbox
> parameter
So far what's happening tho, is the mail is just sitting in
/var/
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:30:37 +0800
"Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Postfix is already setup to put mail for local users in
> /var/spool/mail you do not need to change that..
>
> just install imap/pop3
> edit the pop3 entry in /etc/xinetd.d (make sure its enabled)
>
> and all the machine
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:03:55PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:30:37 +0800
> "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
>
> > Postfix is already setup to put mail for local users in
> > /var/spool/mail you do not need to change that..
> >
> > just install imap/pop3
> > edit the pop
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:25:39PM +0800, Frankie wrote:
> ClamAV and Clamd by themselves are not reliable antivirus systems..
>
> testing by amavis users shows that they miss alot of virus's...
>
> however they sometimes catch one the others don't..
>
> So most of them use something like Sophos
---
Joe said:
It does! Thanks, glad the fight is over, BTW.
Anyhow, and this is where you say RTFM, but I've got fetchmail grokked
(not very hard, I use it right now, but per user), and your exp is clear
on how Postfix takes it from fe
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 6:11 pm, JoeHill wrote:
>
> Ok, here's my plan so far:
>
> Run fetchmail as a system service (initrd?) at boot, I assume I need
> then a *systemwide* .fetchmailrc, ie it will include all users and
> accounts, correct?
Install the fetchmail-daemon RPM and it will do this fo
On 17 Jul 2003 13:28:26 +1000
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Why not use FETCHMAIL to snag the mail for everyone and toss it to
> their accounts on the linux box, then the incoming mail can be run
> through PROCMAIL and milter and SpamAssassin, then have all the boxes
> on the lan acc
2 hours time consuming, I wish. Franki you got it easy mate. Would like
to see the write up though.
Tony.
-Original Message-
From: Frankie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 3:11 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Postfix and POP3
My comments are down
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:44:25 +0100
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 10:38 am, Frankie wrote:
> > 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 P
On 17 Jul 2003 20:00:11 +1000
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Starting at $20/mo or half-oz for half'a'year!
Good one, I nearly spewed my coffee when I read this!
Oh, shit, I could really get into that. I'll even write a fork of
Postfix, called, of course, Potfix.
--
Joehill
Regist
aster then ClamAV for scanning mail) as a
secondary scanner run on mail after the primary one has passed it.
rgds
Franki
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Todd Slater
Sent: Thursday, 17 July 2003 8:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbi
ur 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]
> Subj
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:28:21PM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 13:59, Todd Slater wrote:
> > BTW Stephen, did you figure out how to add "All outgoing email has been
> > scanned by . . ." with CLAMAV?
> >
> > Todd
>
> Nah - at least not yet - but it is working - so that's a
- Original Message -
From: "Stephen Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mandrake Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and POP3
> On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 13:38, JoeHill wrote:
> > On Thu, 17
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 11:03 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 17:54, JoeHill wrote:
> > But who does the POP3 call from the client machine talk to? What takes
> > the mail from /home/use/mail to their inbox? Postfix?
>
> Gremlins.
Mail takes this path
Fetchmail will get it from th
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 17:22, JoeHill wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:58:06 -0400
> Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
>
> > As I understand it, Postfix doesn't go out and get mail, it just sits
> > around listening for mail sent to the machine it lives on, or it will
> > send mail from that
ge-
> 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 PROT
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 17:54, JoeHill wrote:
> But who does the POP3 call from the client machine talk to? What takes
> the mail from /home/use/mail to their inbox? Postfix?
Gremlins.
--
Thu Jul 17 20:00:01 EST 2003
20:00:01 up 3 days, 12:03, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.13, 0.15
--
o collect.)
hope that helps..
regards
Franki
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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&quo
On 17 Jul 2003 14:20:22 +1000
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> ISP (where mail sits)
> |
> FETCHMAIL (grabs the mail from the ISP)
and puts it in the users home dir, ie. they would need a user account on
the server to begin with?
> |
> PROCMAIL (filters incoming mail through rules f
On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 3:58 am, JoeHill wrote:
> I am looking for some concise info on getting Postfix to pick up my POP3
> mail and then farm it out to other clients on the LAN.
>
> The postfix docs, so far as I have, er, scanned...have nothing specific
> to this setup, so I am wondering if that
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:58:06 -0400
Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> As I understand it, Postfix doesn't go out and get mail, it just sits
> around listening for mail sent to the machine it lives on, or it will
> send mail from that machine or a trusted domain. It delivers mail
> locally
On 17 Jul 2003 14:02:36 +1000
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> So you want NOT to use FETCHMAIL to grab the mail from the server -
> you're wanting to have your LINUX box, using a fully qualified dns
> name, to grab the mail with POSTFIX as though it was sucking mail for
> an entire dom
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 13:59, Todd Slater wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:28:26 +1000
> Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> And you can set up all the outbound SMTP to run through that
> > same linux box so that it can be scanned with like CLAMAV on it's way
> > out...ay?
>
> BTW Stephen,
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 14:01, Cody Harris wrote:
> You lost me...
Here, I'll "draw" it out:
ISP (where mail sits)
|
FETCHMAIL (grabs the mail from the ISP)
|
PROCMAIL (filters incoming mail through rules for spam)
|
ANTIVIRUS (whatever AV you use, scans the mail)
|
(POSTFIX/SENDMAIL) (mail ge
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 13:38, JoeHill wrote:
> 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 Postfi
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:28:26 +1000
Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And you can set up all the outbound SMTP to run through that
> same linux box so that it can be scanned with like CLAMAV on it's way
> out...ay?
BTW Stephen, did you figure out how to add "All outgoing email has been
scann
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:54:43 -0400
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:26:49 -0400
> Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
>
> > Would fetchmail do the trick? Fetchmail can get mail from all your
> > POP3 and/or IMAP accounts and put the mails in a local user spool
> >
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:56:15 -0300
"Cody Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> oh, joe, what's your private e-mail?
same.
--
Joehill
Registered Linux user #282046
Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net
**
"Filtering out noise is one wa
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From: "Stephen Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mandrake Newbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and POP3
> On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 12:58, JoeHill wrote:
> > I am looking
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 12:58, JoeHill wrote:
> I am looking for some concise info on getting Postfix to pick up my POP3
> mail and then farm it out to other clients on the LAN.
>
> The postfix docs, so far as I have, er, scanned...have nothing specific
> to this setup, so I am wondering if that is
- Original Message -
From: "JoeHill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:54 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and POP3
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:26:49 -0400
> Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
>
> &
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:26:49 -0400
Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Would fetchmail do the trick? Fetchmail can get mail from all your
> POP3 and/or IMAP accounts and put the mails in a local user spool
> (/var/spool/mail/user) which could then be sent on via forward or
> retrieved by PO
- Original Message -
From: "JoeHill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and POP3
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:14:22 -0300
> "Cody Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
&
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 i
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:58:43 -0400
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am looking for some concise info on getting Postfix to pick up my
> POP3 mail and then farm it out to other clients on the LAN.
>
> The postfix docs, so far as I have, er, scanned...have nothing
> specific to this setup
- Original Message -
From: "JoeHill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and POP3
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:00:50 -0300
> "Cody Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:00:50 -0300
"Cody Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> So you want postfix to grab stuff from a pop and send it to others?
No, Postfix should, I'm assuming, be able to "hold" the mail so that
clients can retrieve it on demand.
--
Joehill
Registered Linux user #282046
So you want postfix to grab stuff from a pop and send it to others?
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From: "JoeHill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mandrake Newbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:58 PM
Subject: [newbie] Postfix and POP3
>
> I am looking for some concise info on gett
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