Sun, 12 Dec 2004, by hylton@global.co.za:
I have heard of many programs that could help me in accomplishing this but I am confused as to what each does, HOW it all works and what order they need to be configured ie sendmail and Postfix are both MTA's. which is configured when going via YAST:Mail Transfer Agent?( I assume Postfix).
Standard from 8.2 onwards. So, you need a POP3 client (fetchmail will do nicely), a MTA (Postfix is a good choice), a virus/spam filter (amavisd-new with ClamAV and spamassassin do good jobs there) and a IMAP server (dovecot is secure and easy to setup). Read up on the documentation for these packages and read the docs on http://www.tldp.org wrt mail and networking.
3) Incoming mail is received by Postfix 4)Postfix routes the mail to clamav for antivirus 4.1) clamav checks all the email 4.2) Clean Virus 5.0) SpamAssassin Trash(left unread in case clean) 5.1) |Clean |Spam
4 - 5.1 can be folded into one with amavisd-new. This calls the virus scanners and spamassassin and takes care of all the quarantining.
| | 5.2) Trf to dIMAP store Trf to dIMAP store INBOX folder Junk folder
Does this sound reasonable and possible solution, even if it is a bit long winded and perhaps misguided?
Sounds good.
Where does fetchmail come into it or does it need to retrieve the mail (2) and pass it to Postfix?
Correct, assuming you don't have/use a dns MX for direct delivery with SMTP.
I have no experience in working with source or compiling and rely on SuSE RPM's that can be installed via YAST. Currently only boxed set RPM's have been installed.
They're sufficient.
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Good idea (to keep that for later) Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: gurp@nedlinux.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + MSN: twe-msn@ferrets4me.xs4all.nl See headers for PGP/GPG info. +