[TriLUG] Mail ???

Brian McCullough bdmc at bdmcc-us.com
Thu Jul 15 00:05:28 EDT 2004


On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:46:50PM -0400, Jason Tower wrote:
> just trying to follow the minimalistic unix approach :-)
> 
> postfix is not what you need.  fetchmail will, uh, fetch mail from the 
> pop account and save it somewhere (mbox, maildir, whatever).  then your 
> mail client can read it.  i'm pretty sure you can set fetchmail to send 
> messages thru procmail, which can invoke spamassassin and do sorting, 
> etc.  i haven't used fetchmail much lately but there are plenty of docs 
> out there.


That's correct, Jason.

I tend to use getmail instead, but have used fetchmail and been
satisfied.


> jason


Brian





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