Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:09:03 -0500 From: Depo Catcher <depocatcher@gmail.com> To: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail and DNS setup Message-ID: <4C6E381F.7040609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C6E31F4.5090306@gmail.com> References: <4C6DB3DE.6080209@gmail.com> <20100820020650.2142ebff@gumby.homeunix.com> <4C6E31F4.5090306@gmail.com>
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On 8/20/2010 2:42 AM, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 8/19/2010 8:06 PM, RW wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:44:46 -0500 >> Depo Catcher<depocatcher@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> getmail + qmail + procmail replacement + courier-imap = win? >> >> Why use an mta at all? getmail was specifically designed to avoid that. >> >> You can just do something like: >> >> getmail -> procmail -> whatever >> >> getmail -> dovecot-deliver+sieve plugin > > > I use getmail, dovecot, and postfix. I have getmail and postfix > forwarding to dovecot with sieve, and a root .forward file for > receiving server logs and filtering to a directory of their own. I > haven't integrated dspam and the dovecot-antispam plugin in yet but > will. Postfix doesn't handle anything other than local mail, and even > then only logs. > > The main trouble I had was getting the local storage layout the way > *I* wanted instead of defaults, `mail_location = > maildir:/var/mail/%u:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/var/mail/%u`. I was also able > to import and filter all of my Mail.app 1.3 mail via a simple perl > script I wrote using /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver. With the > getmail/refilter trick, fixing sieve problems can be easy and has it > almost all server side. > hrm, thanks. Dovecot looks pretty nice. I like Courier, but might have to give this a spin on a test box.
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