solution for mail filters

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@tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

Re: solution for mail filters

[Raul A. Gallegos]

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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Re: 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@tysdomain.com
My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@asmodean.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@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,
>
> -- 
> Raul A. Gallegos -- http://www.asmodean.net
>
>
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