This would be a great presentation. If you don't use it, WHO?
Who could/would do a presentation on setting this up.
Say start with RedHat or other Distro....
Larry :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: Derek Glidden Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] SPAM prevention
> On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 15:47, Tina Gasperson wrote:
> > So, help me here. :) Are you saying that I *don't*
> > need to have access to a mail server to use these
> > tools if I set up Fetchmail?
>
> Fetchmail supports bloody every known method of mail delivery mechanisms
> to pull mail off of "some server someplace" and put it on "your
> server/mail client somewhere else." So it can take mail from a machine
> you _don't_ have administrative access to, and put it on a machine you
> _do_, all as if the mail were getting delivered via normal channels. I
> don't actually use it, so that's about as detailed an explanation I can
> get. (See the homepage URL below.)
>
> Considering Fetchmail's overwhelming functionality, I would be shocked
> (SHOCKED, I tell you! :) to hear that it did not have some way of
> calling procmail against the mail it's gathering up for you. And since
> both Junkfilter and Vipul are procmail-based, as long as you can run
> procmail against your incoming email, you can do it.
>
> Now, when looking up the Fetchmail homepage
> (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/), I see a paragraph that says:
>
> "Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via
> SMTP, so it can then be be read by normal mail user agents such as mutt,
> elm(1) or BSD Mail. It allows all your system MTA's filtering,
> forwarding, and aliasing facilities to work just as they would on normal
> mail."
>
> So since it's delivering via SMTP, all you would need to do is get an
> SMTP agent (exim, postfix, qmail, sendmail...) running on the same
> machine on which you will be running Fetchmail, get Procmail working,
> and finally configure Procmail to run Junkfilter or Vipul and it should
> all act just as if you were running those tools on the mail server on
> which your email was originally delivered.
>
> Of course, I'm glossing over the details, which are fairly in-depth, but
> getting each of those individual components working is clearly
> documented on respective websites, (if not already part of your Linux
> distro) and basically, well, I'm just soooo damn good, aren't I? ;)
>
> > --- Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com> wrote:
> > > If it were me, I'd probably play with getting
> > > Fetchmail to work with
> > > either Vipul or Junkfilter. But that's me and I
> > > enjoy a challenge. :)
> > __________________________________________________
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