[sclug] mail setup: getmail, dovecot - and exim?

[John Stumbles]

Martin Meredith wrote:
> I'd highly suggest that you have seperate mailboxes at the ISPs end for
> doing this. It makes life so much easier!

Not really: I want to be able to filter on rexeps e.g. [jim|james|jamie] 
[and.*] (andy/andrew) etc. Even if my current ISP let me do this it's 
non-portable between ISPs. Plus I need to have each user getmail-ing the 
ISP for their own email.

The way I've got it set up now I just have home-mailserver-box 
getmailing the ISP and delivering to local users - as if I were running 
a pukka mailhost on my home box.

> I currently use postfix + fetchmail + courier, and I find that fetchmail
> has by far the easiest configuration
--8<-- snip fetchmail config example

Getmail's config is fairly straightforward (must be if I can grok it ;-))

There seems to be something of a holy war going on between fetchmail and 
getmail supporters: I'm trying to keep my head down :-)

cheers

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John Stumbles