fetchmail solution

Hadders fedora at workingwithit.com
Sun Dec 3 10:26:00 UTC 2006


jdow's solution sounds more like what you want...

jdow wrote:
> From: "LC" <listfedora at gmail.com>
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a fedora router to route LAN into the internet to pick up 
>> emails and such. Is there a solution which I can make use of 
>> fetchmail to check on mailboxes from the internet server, store them 
>> in the router and wait for users to pick up the mails?
>
> Yes.
>
> {^_^}
>
>
>        OOOOHHHH, you wanted to know what the answer is, too? Why dincha
> say that? {^_-}
>
> I run fetchmail, per user for the dozen or so email accounts and two
> chunks of meat. Fetchmail feeds procmail directly. Procmail feeds the
> mail spool directly. Dovecot drags things out of the mail spool and
> presents them to the user via POP3S or IMAPS.
>
> Procmail has my /dev/null handling for certain particular pests such as
> anybody who uses challenge/response spamming that they think is anti-
> spamming. It also calls up spamassassin with lots of SARE rules and
> runs the FuzzyOCR and clam-assassin plugins.
>
> It's a traditional 'ix lashup, lots of programs that specialize in one
> sort of data handling passing the data along to each other.
>
> {^_^}
>




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