Re: How getmail deals with delivery errors and with bounce e-mails
RW <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 09:50:09 -0600 Charles Cazabon wrote: > RW <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Nov 2020 11:56:17 +0000 > > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > > > 3) nonspam gets handed to postfix.sendmail which passes it to my > > > local master MTA, a copy of Postfix running on an always-on house > > > server. > > > > getmail was designed to avoid the use of an MTA. > > As the designer of getmail, I can tell you that your absolute > statement is incorrect. Ok I'll rephrase that as "avoid the necessity". > > IMO you should stop volunteering what you do as an example of how > > to use getmail. > > I found his example useful and well described. IMO it's needlessly over-complicated. I know he started-off using fetchmail which explains why it works as it does. Note that spamkiller is not a third party spam-filtering program, it's a bespoke glue binary that was needed to work around fetchmail's limitations. What he's doing can be done better and more flexibly with just: getmail --> dovecot-lda and a few lines of sieve. SpamAssassin can be run either from getmail or sieve.