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From: Pollywog (no email)
Date: Sun Oct 02 2005 - 11:50:48 EDT
On 10/02/2005 03:39 pm, Varun wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I trying to setup mailserver using :
>
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> Postfix-Procmail-Fetchmail-SpamAssassin-ClamAV-Courier IMAP
>
> I have a little doubt about courier-imap function.
>
> Procmail does the following :
>
> " Procmail is a very flexible autonomous mail processor. It handles mail
> that has been received by Postfix using .procmailrc 'recipes' that
> determine what to do based on various aspects of the mail. You can
> configure a unique .procmailrc for each user. My .procmailrc whitelists
> some mailing lists and addresses, pipes everything else through
> Spamassassin, and delivers the results to my maildir directory. "
>
> Fetchmail the following:
> " Fetchmail does just that - fetches mail from specified remote POP3
> servers and delivers it to Postfix. "
>
> If procmail delivers to maildir that should do. Maildir contains all mail
>
> client folders.
>
> What does then courier-imap do then ?
Courier-imap allows you to read your mail (in your Maildir).
8)
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