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



Am 2007-03-27 07:26:20, schrieb Owen Heisler:
> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:06 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > Paul Stolp <paulywall@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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?

You can ONLY reject messages IF the come in over SMTP and
not if they are fetched by "fetchmail" or "getmail".

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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