Aaron Bridge wrote:
This setup uses fetchmail, postfix, amavis, spamassassin, antivir and cyrus.
1. fetchmail fetches mails and sends them to postfix 2. postfix uses a contentfilter to convey the mail to amavisd-new 3. amavisd-new uses spamassassin and a virusscanner to check the mails 4. when amavis/spamassassin/virusscan checked the mail, amavis sends it back to postfix 5. postfix delivers the checked mail then to cyrus imapd to finally store the mail 6. Cyrus Imapd provides the services pop3 and/or imap to retrieve/view the mails with a mail user agent (MUA) like Outlook, Thunderbird etc. Imap is prefered, it offers more features.
That is the "normal" process to fetch mails with fetchmail -> Postfix-> Amavis -> Cyrus. Of course, this setup is only one among many other possible solutions.
Sandy
WOW that's a lot to get my head around. If I can do it, I will blow my own mind.
Yast will go a long way to deal with the pain of setting up such a system if you do it the right way. First install all required packages. Yes that means no open dependencies, please. Then use the mail server configuration in yast to set up the basic constellation. That will hopefully get you a running postfix server with amavis-checks and delivery to cyrus. Of course, manual work will be needed in any case. Don't think this will be done in one day. Sandy -- List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com