[fetchmail-users] Re: Fetchmail

[Sunil S. <sh...@bo...>]

Hello Indika,

Quoting from Indika Mendis's mail on Mon, Feb 27, 2006:
>    My  name  is  Indika  and  using  fetchmail in my linux mail server to
>    download  mails.  It  is working properly...  but I have to do a small
>    thing....  Our  staff  members are receiving some unwanted emails with
>    several  subjects.  Is  there  any  configuration  that we can do with
>    fetchmail  or  any  other  thing  in linux servers....  I want to stop
>    these mail by filtering subject wise... pl help me to solve this prob.

This is a fetchmail FAQ entry:

<http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G4>

For filtering by subject, use procmail or maildrop. For that, you will
have to find out what programs are installed on your system. Also, you
will have to analyse the output of "fetchmail -v".

Here is one sample setup:

Question                                             Possible answer
--------------------------------------------------------------------
What SMTP servers are installed on my system?        qmail, sendmail
What mail filtering programs are installed?          maildrop, procmail
Where is fetchmail forwarding my mails to?           SMTP server
What SMTP server is running on my system?            sendmail
Is my SMTP server also delivering mails directly?    no
Who is delivering my mails?                          procmail
What spam filtering programs are installed?          spamassassin

In this setup, procmail has already been enabled. So, it is the
question of just writing the procmailrc. Details of setting up the
procmailrc (per-user as well as globally) can be found in procmail
documentation.

If you are interesting in spam filtering, you can enable that too in
the rc file of the mail-filtering program.

If you have more queries, please subscribe to the user mailling list.
You can find more details of the lists at
<http://fetchmail.berlios.de/>. After subscribing, send the output of
"fetchmail -V" and "fetchmail -v" to the user mailing list.

-- 
Sunil Shetye.