* Wayne Stout ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Greetings, everyone.
>
> I'm sure this is a really stupid question, but here goes. If I want to use
> fetchmail/procmail for message retrieval and filtering, do I also have to
> use Sendmail or postfix? I want to keep using my isp's mail server for
> sending, but all the talk I've seen on various lists about procmail has got
> me curious and I'd like to give it a try...
It doesn't seem to me like a stupid question, just a
not-yet-enlightened one :)
Doing a test:
[jimmy@localhost jimmy]$ rpm -q --requires fetchmail
smtpdaemon
/bin/sh
(lots of other things)
So, it does require an smtp daemon. I use qmail, it's
just easier to configure and said to be safer. There
are RPMs for Mandrake on www.freezer-burn.org and a
mini-HOWTO, but be advised that after all this is a
server and you should be careful with matters of
security.
Also, fetchmail has a GUI configuration tool that's
kinda easy to use if you like that stuff.
On procmail, better grab some coffee, because those
waay-too-powerful things are not so easy to configure,
but when you do that, you have a great power in your
hands (Just to make an example, today i received one
more copy of the stupid Sircam, and the filters i have
installed, including John Hardin's Sanitizer, got it
and defanged it before it got to my maildirs :)
And if you want to subscribe to mailing lists, procmail
is very handy. I'm subscribed to over 40+ lists and groups
and handle them just fine (i'm the bottleneck of this
system, go figure :) )
Hope that you are in the way to enlightenment (no, not
the WM :) )
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