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



On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:06 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Paul Stolp <paulywall@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would think that this would then use exim's spam and
> > virus checking (I actually don't have that going
> > through exim.)
> > 
> > Perhaps I'm missing the point ... can spam and viruses
> > be rejected at SMTP time with fetchmail?
> 
> SMTP? fetchmail is using POP3 to retrieve mails and rejection
> by exim before receiving them is pretty pointless.

How is it pointless if you want your incoming mail (via getmail) scanned
for viruses/spam along with any other mail received (via SMTP) by the
system?

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