Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:37:12 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fetchmail: Error message in maillog Message-ID: <20061105072948.9713.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <014301c700aa$839af780$0225a8c0@Wednesday> References: <200611041308.10820.gerard@seibercom.net> <014301c700aa$839af780$0225a8c0@Wednesday>
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On Sunday November 05, 2006 at 02:17:43 (AM) jdow wrote: > From: "Gerard Seibert" <gerard@seibercom.net> > > <stuff> > > Not that this is any particular help but is there some special reason > you want to run the mail through postfix rather than simply use a > tool like procmail straight from fetchmail for your deliveries? That > is what I do. This is the "magic". I run it as each of two individual > users. > > defaults mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d <me>" > > <me> is really the user name for the user running the instance of > fetchmail. Loren and I use different fetchmail modes. Several reasons: 1) I dislike procmail 2) Fetchmail doesn't recommend procmail 3) All of my AV and Anti-Spam controls are set up in Postfix 4) Nearly all of the users on my system are 'virtual'. I was told that procmail either doesn't work or doesn't work reliably with 'virtual' users. 5) I already have Dovecot installed. I have no reason for another LDA. 6) Not all of the mail for this system is delivered via Fetchmail. -- Gerard
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