Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

[Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@gmail.com>]

Andrei Popescu schreef:
> Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
> 
>> 1.) What is 'reinjection in a mail queue'? Where can I learn how this 
>> differs from whatever is being done by fetchmail as an example case?
>> Or does fetchmail also do reinjection in a mail queue?
> 
> As I understand it, the pop3/imap protocols were created to allow a
> mail client to retrieve the mail and present it to the user. Fetchmail
> instead is feeding it back to a mail server through port 25.

In my case, i use fetchmail in daemon mode without problems but
apperently, there is some ugliness with bounced messages when using
reinjection. Not sure how or what that entails but i would also like to
know what the exact problem is.

I've had a look at getmail and it's indeed easy to setup & have cron
check the mail, but, with fetchmail the spam & virus checking is done
from exim.

With getmail this is no longer possible so you have to find another way
of checking spam/virusses. I checked and you can do that from maildrop
(you can also do that from procmail i think) but i haven't found out a
working solution yet as i like to setup spam/virus checking systemwide.
With exim, this is not a problem at all.

Regards,
Benedict