Re: How getmail deals with delivery errors and with bounce e-mails

On Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:44:06 +0000
Martin Gregorie wrote:

> On Tue, 2020-11-03 at 17:04 +0000, RW wrote:
> > Note that spamkiller is not a third party spam-filtering program, 
> >  
> Correct.
> 
> > it's a bespoke glue binary that was needed to work around
> > fetchmail's limitations.
> >  
> Not so. 
> 
> Spamkiller was designed from the outset to sit behind Spamassassin.


getmail can send email to SpamAssassin itself, you can use sieve in
dovecot-lda to do the rest. You don't need any glue with getmail.


> I use a PHP page to inspect quarantined spam.

This is an approach that's mostly used by email services that can't
provide folders. For example portable email addresses that are
forwarded. Otherwise, it's more convenient to just have a spam folder.

If you deliver via dovecot-lda, it's trivial to handle it from sieve.