From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 08:21:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D2516A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:21:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from wizkid.homeip.net (wizkid.homeip.net [213.238.38.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A9043D41 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:21:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from me@wizkid.homeip.net) Received: from amavis by wizkid.homeip.net with scanned-ok (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ajha7-0003Bv-00; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:21:23 +0100 Received: from wizkid.homeip.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (darkstar [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11857-09; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:21:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from atm0-1-cisco4.work.de ([212.12.32.141] helo=wizkid.homeip.net) by wizkid.homeip.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ajha4-0003Bq-00; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:21:20 +0100 Message-ID: <400FF880.6020105@wizkid.homeip.net> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 17:21:20 +0100 From: me User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031227 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mikko References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at wizkid.homeip.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: local mail delivery X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:21:28 -0000 Fetchmail retrieves mail from remote mail servers and forwards it via SMTP, so it can then be read by normal mail user agents such as mutt, elm(1) or BSD Mail. It allows all your system MTA's filtering, forwarding, and aliasing facilities to work just as they would on normal mail. in short: it is fetched and inserted into your mta taken from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ greetings ruediger mikko wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering how should I setup a server. > I have installed spamassassin, and am using > fetchmail to get mail from another host. > Now, I wouldn't want to install procmail. > > I do not understand how the mail travels: > > I make a ssh connection to start imapd > on the target mail-host with fetchmail, to > get the mail, but to whom program does > fetchmail give it to? sendmail? Or does it > put it directly in the mailspool? > Some other program? > > I have spamd running, so does it know > that sendmail/spool/other is getting these mails, > and would know to scan them? > > I am running 5.1 "out-of-the-box" with > programs installed from a recent ports-tree. > > Thank you in advance. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >