[TriLUG] Mail ???

Hugh Crissman hsc-linux at nc.rr.com
Thu Jul 15 07:34:38 EDT 2004


So, if I take this approach, where does it leave me in the future if I
decide to setup my own mail server and/or use squirlmail/webmail?

Hugh

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 23:46, Jason Tower wrote:
> 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.
> 
> jason
> 
> On Wednesday 14 July 2004 23:23, Hugh Crissman wrote:
> > Not really sure what you mean Jason?
> >
> > hugh
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 20:14, Jason Tower wrote:
> > > > Now this is starting to make more sense. Let me know if I am on
> > > > the right track. Step 1) config postfix to download mail from
> > > > roadrunner POP server to local spool? 2) config evolution and
> > > > mutt to read from that local spool.
> > >
> > > s/postfix/fetchmail
> > >
> > > jason




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