On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 18:41:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...]> > I have things set up with three fetchmail accounts (two go to > my mailboxes, one to my wife's), exim4, procmail, spamc/spamd, and > courier-imap. Of those, the hard parts (in order of difficulty) were: [...] > > 4) mutt config -- I copied someone else's and gradually customized it. I'm > using m4 cleverness for mailing list subscriptions.
Yes, there are many examples out there to plagiarize. And I am always finding new tweaks, and learning how to do the bits I gave up on previously. No other MTA gives so much entertainment ;-) > 5) spamassassin user_prefs -- I shouldn't discount this, since I had > developed it over the course of years on a > system someone else administered, but it was > incremental improvements. I'd be interested to see the results of such long-considered improvements (privately if you don't want to post it here). The pressure is off since I installed greylistd, but I intend to have another go at spamassassin soon -- my last attempt was abandonned after I brought the server to its knees! [...] > There are some embellishments, such as having three accounts with the same > UID so that I can receive mail to root on one, mail to my private address > on another, and mail to my mailing list address on another, each of which > are separate maildirs that mutt considers mail spools. I could do it with > procmail, I think, but it's easier (if not simpler) to do it with three > accounts. I didn't know that it was possible to share a UID. I guess I'd have done that with an /etc/aliases and an exim .forward -- as ever with *nix, there are many routes to get to any one place. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
