Re: [Sheflug] Local e-mail service

[Richard <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter

> > 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.

Works fine with Kmail.  Otherwise I wouldn't be reading your mail :)  
You run Fetchmail by doing something like '-d500' or '-d700' as a 
user and not as root.  '-d60' checks for mail every minute.

http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/

> 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...)

Yes.  Should work fine.  In Kmail you substitute Sendmail for 
something else.   Mines running Postfix.

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

I started using Sendmail quite a few years ago when it was still half 
decent software.  About a year after that it was hopeless.

> > 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.

Yes.  That's the nice thing about running Kmail with fetchmail, 
fetchmailconf, procmail and something like Qmail or Exim.  You get 
all the spam management software and anti-virus stuff and Kmail's 
filtering system as well.   You might want to check that you copied 
and deleted your *.cf rules for SpamAssassin 
from /usr/share/spamassassin to  /etc/mail/spamassassin.  This is a 
setup feature which is not generally known about.  Then, as a user 
and not as root, do 'spamassassin --lint' and see what falls down the 
screen in front of you.  If you see nothing then everything is 
working fine.


-- 
Richard

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