Re: .mailfilter rule mysteriously not followed

On 01/26/2013 10:55 PM, Dr Michael Daly wrote:

> ... Am
> running postfix, dovecot, fetchmail and maildrop. Maybe I don't need all
> these.

If you have postfix accepting mails from the network, the normal chain
is postfix -> maildrop -> dovecot. If you need to pop mail from
upstream, it's [ISP's POP server] -> fetchmail -> maildrop -> dovecot.

If you want to do both, you have to have postfix -> maildrop -> dovecot
& you might as well inject the outside mail into postfix queue with
fetchmail -> postfix -> maildrop -> dovecot.

You can't really get rid of postfix, it's needed for things like cron
etc., but if you can throw all your mail at ISP, you could do fetchmail
-> maildrop -> dovecot & have postfix set up to "send only". If you can
open your postfix to the big bad internet you could forward your mail
from ISP and get rid of fetchmail.

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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