[NTLUG:Discuss] Spamassassin and Fetchmail

Rick Matthews k5wls at verizon.net
Sat Apr 3 08:47:29 CST 2004


Scott Hollomon wrote:
> 
> Is what you have suggested as easy as inserting the line
> 
> smtphost localhost
> 
> in the .fetchmailrc file?  Will that trigger forwarding via localhost? 

Here's what I use:

poll "incoming.verizon.net" 
	proto pop3 
	user "verizon-user-id" 
	with pass "verizon-passwd" 
	is "local-user-id" here 
	forcecr 
	smtpaddress localhost

Rick





> 
> 
> On Fri April 2 2004 12:44 pm, Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> > I had fetchmail retrieve the mail and resend it to a
> > local IMAP User's folder. I'd get mail from yahoo
> > and send it to user+yahoo at local.host.
> >
> > SPAMASSASSIN worked for all @local.host mail so
> > it handled the fetched mail properly.
> >
> > jack
> >
> > > I run my own mail server (sendmail) and have spamassassin and procmail
> > > set to
> > > check incoming mail and mark mail identified as spam.  I also have other
> > > pop3
> > > accounts and I run fetchmail on my mail server to aggregate all my
> > > accounts.
> > > Can spamassassin check mail coming via fetchmail?  If so how do I
> > > configure
> > > that?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > --
> > > Scott Hollomon
> > > scott at hollomon.us
> > >
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> -- 
> Scott Hollomon
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