The 03.02.20 at 20:40, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Ok... you use fetchmail. That's a start. And then what? Fetchmail hands off to sendmail... then what?
I use:
Fetchmail ---> sendmail ---> procmail ---> /var/mail/<several inboxes> --> pop3 from Kmail into several folders.
The point I left out above is that Spamassassin is called by a procmail recipe and filters every incoming mail prior to Kmail ever seeing it.
I think you're making this more complex than it has to be.
Your turn: how do you receive mail now?
You missed one important point in this sub-thread: I was commenting on how could we could drop spam _before_ downloading the email, or at least, before completely downloading it, as soon as it's known to be spam. Your setup, and mine, works by scanning mail for spam _after_ it has been fully downloaded, and thus, _paid_ for. We would need spam filtering either on the server side of the ISP, or directly from sendmail or postfix - because both programs have the ability, I think, to abort a particular mail from being fully downloaded by fetchmail. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson