[TriLUG] Mail ???

[Tanner Lovelace]

Jason Tower said the following on 7/14/04 11:46 PM:

> 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.

Fetchmail can be configured to feed e-mail directly to your local
mail transport agent using smtp.  What this means in english :-)
is that fetchmail can feed mail directly to postfix and make it appear
as if you were receiving it like a normal mail server.  Then
you can use all the standard stuff for mail processing (i.e. postfix
probably uses procmail as the local delivery agent, you can use postfix's
UCE features, etc...).

Cheers,
Tanner