[Gllug] Email servers.

Mike Brodbelt mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk
Sat May 14 12:19:51 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 13:20 +0100, Wiehe, Simon wrote:

> Someone has suggested I use procmail and I can then use spamassasin and 
> a virus scanner. Is this correct ? It would mean fetchmail would pass
> to procmail, would procmail write direct to the IMAP directories or
> would it use postfiix as well ?

Using procmail with Cyrus is non-optimal, IMHO. Procmail can't deliver
to the IMAP directories directly, it has to invoke deliver, a small LMTP
wrapper program provided with Cyrus. It's much better to have your MTA
talk LMTP to Cyrus directly, and to use sieve to filter your mail.

Mike.

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