On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 09:17:31PM -0400, Scott Grizzard wrote:
> It is easier just to run fetchmail as a daemon, and let each user have
> their own rcfethmail files. If you are using Ubuntu, I believe this is
> the default. Instead of dumping to mail spools, deliver it to your mail
> server (postfix in my case), and then you can run all sorts of spam
> filters and antivirus too (which is probably what you are doing anyway).
>
> Setting up a mailserver with Dovecot/Postfix/Procman is pretty easy in
> Ubuntu and CentOS, and then run the fetchmail daemon and deliver it to
> postfix.
>
> What distro are you using?
Wow, you're late to the party!
I'm using Debian unstable.
Yes, you can run fetchmail as a daemon, but no matter how you configure
the rc file, it still dumps the mail in /var/mail/fetchmail.
This is a server, so there's no logging in. This server is supposed to
fetch mail from the smarthost on the internet, and dump it to mailboxes
for the users the mail belongs to. They, in turn will use their
fetchmail or MUAs to fetch it from the server. It's actually a little
more complicated than that, with procmail and spamassassin being hit on
the way to the mail spools.
I actually ended up using a variation on (I think) Chris' idea. Not
ideal, but it should work. Fortunately, I rarely reset that machine.
Paul
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