Mailscanner and fetchmail

[Julian Field]

At 03:35 05/07/2002, you wrote:
>Mailscanner obviously looks at files in mqueue.in, scan them and puts
>them into mqueue. This means mailscanner does not listen to port 25.
>sendmail listen to port 25 and stores the mails in mqueue.in. Thus, can
>I call that part of mailscanner which unpacks attachments, scans them
>and returns the cleaned file - thro' procmail?

No you can't. Sorry.

>Alternatively, can a config be provided in mailscanner whereby I mention
>local email ids and these mails are delivered to procmail after scanning
>instead of sendmail thro' the mqueue directory?

Can't easily do that either. The messages are not left in a form that could
be given to procmail, they are turned back into queue files. I'll look at
this for the next major version, but that won't be any time soon.


>Mohan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk]
>Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 1:06 PM
>To: S Mohan
>Subject: Re: Mailscanner and fetchmail
>
>
>At 03:23 04/07/2002, you wrote:
> >I've not been able to get mails coming thro' fetchmail scanned by
> >mailscanner. In my scenario, I've a mail host hosting my domain
> >vectrasystems.com. All mails destined for vectrasystems.com does get
> >scanned - no issues. For a few users, I'm using fetchmail to pick up
> >personal mail from their personal mailbags in different email provider
> >domains. Thus those domains are not local and fetchmail delivers to a
> >local user specified for each pick up. If I pass these mails to port
> >25, the mail will never reach the user on the machine as the domain is
> >not local. It will introduce a vicious loop too.
>
>You have to get it to pass in the mail on port 25. You should be able to
>
>avoid your loop problem by using the virtual user table to handle mail
>for
>those addresses.
>
> >Can I call the mailscanner engine as a filter program in procmail?
>
>No, you can't. MailScanner scans all mail coming in through port 25.
>
>Post you question on the list, I'm pretty sure there are some fetchmail
>users there.
>There are quite a few fetchmail questions in the archive, I just
>searched using
>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S2=mailscanner&q=fetchmail&s=&f
>=&a=&b=
>
>--
>Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
>jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ