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by Jari Fredriksson :: Rate this Message:

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> The one thing he does NOT want to do is what seems to be
> most common with Fedora Core - use it for filtering each
> email as you fetch it using evolution. You find yourself
> with long delays in an interactive situation. Turn off
> any SpamAssassin access in evolution and tell it to fetch
> from a pop3 or imap port on your local machine. Use the
> fetchmail, procmail, dovecot sort of solution.
>
>
>                  ->SA-|
>                  |    \/
>  fetchmail-----> procmail----> mailbox -----> dovecot
>

Or fetchmail, maildrop, Courier IMAP sort of solution.

If find maildrop much less cryptic to use and configure that procmail. Courier IMAP I just use, dunno how it differs from Dovecot. I use Maildir based configuration, that Courier handles  well, but I guess dovecot too.


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