From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ultimately, using fetchmail or getmail or whatever mail retrieval tool
you use isn't likely to make much of a difference...segregate your
services and don't force your desktop computer to do everything.
This really has little to do with spamassassin so I hesitate to go on.
Well, SA is the main cause of the lag, so its almost germain. :)
This is the topology used here, one for me and one for Loren.
SpamAssassin
/\ /->pop3 email reading
fetchmail->procmail->/var/spool/mail/<user>->Dovecot<
\->imap spam/ham samples
Procmail calls SpamAssasin and feeds the return off to the spool file.
In your case you'd skip the pop3 part and use imap mailboxes if you do
not use a remote X-Window to your user machine and its KMail account.
Fetchmail runs once every one or two minutes getting email from three
or four accounts for each of us and funneling it all into one account.
That seems to suit our current uses. And reading delays are zilch. The
mail readers are on other machines and as it happens we both use
Outlook<whatyoudowithpimples>. It polls the appropriate Dovecot pop3
mailbox once every few minutes and stores it on our main workstations.
(On that one I gotta give OE some credit. It is more flexible for storage
than imap can manage.)
{^_^}
