Re: [Sheflug] Local e-mail service

[Peter Humphrey <prh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 16 March 2007 17:34:50 Richard wrote:

> Install fetchmail, fetchmailconf, procmail.

Er, no thanks. On the workstation I read my Internet e-mail in Kmail, which 
I'm happy to let fetch its own mail. That's using POP3 at the moment, but I 
may switch to SMTP delivery instead soon. It can happily read local 
Maildirs too, so no reason for those packages there, either.

> For the best use Qmail.  It's excellent. 

I've just started playing with netqmail, which installed smoothly and seems 
to need next to no configuration. Can that be possible? (See Sendmail 
remark, below...)

> For gawd's sake stay away from *@@??g Sendmail which kills off anyone's
> interest in Linux MTA configuration.

Yeah. I bought the Sendmail book many years ago and it gave me nightmares. 
Long since pulped (the book, that is).

> Don't forget to install Spamassassin and the user_prefs file
> in /home/peter/.spamassassin and not /etc/mail/spamassassin.

Nice tip. Thanks. At present I have Spam Assassin linked to Kmail, which 
works reasonably well, but I may move it further upstream.

> Need help you can ask me.

Generous - thanks.

-- 
Rgds
Peter Humphrey
Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93

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