solution for mail filters

[Tyler Littlefield]

awesome. I wasn't sure what was supposed to be doing what. I just got lucky 
and found a solution with courier and exim. :)
I'll go dig around on google, and see how things work out.


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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: solution for mail filters


> You can have procmail do the sorting and tossing for you so that fetchmail 
> does it's job, and passes it to your mta. Then the mta uses procmail to 
> put things where they need to go.
>
> I used to do this a couple of years back and had mail going in the right 
> places and it worked beautifully with mutt as my mail reader. However I'm 
> no longer using this, but there may be archives from me and a few others 
> archived in this list which give the answers and maybe some examples.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Tyler Littlefield wrote the following on 4/27/2009 11:04 AM:
>> 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,
>
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