On Sunday 21 September 2003 12:27, Steve Sapovits wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:55:20 +0000 > > Daniela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good mail reader that can fetch mail as a daemon, > > stores mail in a format readable by KMail or Evolution, and has a console > > interface (I don't run X often)? It should also be somehow able to put > > the mail in different folders based on the value of some headers. > > Have you looked at fetchmail? http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ > > fetchmail can fetch from designated accounts and forward to your local > mail server. The way I'm set up, fetchmail fetches from various POP > and IMAP accounts, forwarding everything to sendmail. At that point > you can use sendmail's anti-spam (or that of the MTA in use), and plug > in anti-virus software on the server. Clam is the anti-virus software > I personally want to look into (haven't yet): > http://clamav.elektrapro.com/
Thanks a lot for your reply, fetchmail seems just right for the job. I'll try Clam together with amavis, or is there a better way to run it? What MTA would you recommend (sendmail is too insecure)? Can I just put the mail in the respective user's home directory with fetchmail, and configure their MUA's to get mail from there? Or do I put it in /var/mail/<username>? Can I run an MTA in a chroot environment with an unprivileged UID? Am I asking too much? I read the fetchmail FAQ, but I still don't have a clue. My users are lazy, so they shouldn't notice a change at all, if possible. Needless to say, I have little experience with mail servers, I never had one. Best regards, Daniela _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
