Jari Fredriksson wrote:
>> 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.
>
more generally:
(fetchmail|getmail|...) -> (MTA|MDA) -> SA -> (MTA|MDA) -> mailbox
> If find maildrop much less cryptic to use and configure that procmail.
true. but some linux users seem to have packaging|build problems...
(example 1: maildrop built with authlib, but authlib not configured or
authdaemon not running. example 2: maildrop built without authlib, but
relies on authlib. example 3: messing with permissions/setuid... )
> 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.
>
sure. and you can use maildrop with dovecot of course. (I use both
courier and dovecot, but will certainly move everything to dovecot).
