Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)
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On 03/28/07 10:06, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
>>> What I don't think is optimal is to redirect *all* your mails
>>> through an MTA like exim/postfix/... just to do some filtering.
>>> Getmail can do this on its own just fine (well not the actual
>>> filtering, but then neither does exim/postfix), no need for the
>>> added complexity.
>> Why not? The MTA is already installed, so why not use it for it's
>> designed purpose, including relaying outbound mail?
> ^^^^^^^^
> I thought we were talking about inbound mail. I'm sending my mail just
> fine using postfix.
As am I.
The point is: I've already installed an MTA, why not use it to it's
fullest?
Stated differently: using getmail to do spam filtering is a good
idea if you did *not* install a full-featured MTA, but why use
getmail to do something that postfix can do, when postfix is already
installed?
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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