solution for mail filters

[Tyler Littlefield]

Hello list,
I figured out my issue with fetchmail; it was erroring because courier was using maildir, while exim was using /var/mail. Fixing the two to match solved the problems.
I've currently got a script that looks something like:
wihle true;do
fetchmail
sleep 60
done
which runs in nohup ./fetch &
Is there a cleaner way to run this? I'd like to see it run when the system starts, though I don't want to retrieve mail as root.
Also, I want to filter out certain people from mailing me. Or run filters on the mail like running it through spamassassin and clamav before it hits my box. Is this easy to do with fetchmail?
I don't know how these work, so I'm not totally sure how i'd go about doing that.


Thanks,
Tyler Littlefield
Web: tysdomain.com
email: tyler at tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.