Mailscanner success now the next step

[Matt Chipman]

Thanks for the quick replu Julian and a great program ..... is there any
documentation around this solution or an example config?

I am still not getting my head around the config of this .....

thanks

-Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: Mailscanner success now the next step


> The usual solution to this, when using fetchmail (I hope getmail works in
a
> similar way), is to have fetchmail deliver the mail to localhost via SMTP,
> at which point MailScanner will pick it up and scan it. Then have the MTA
> deliver to local mailboxes.
>
> At 08:28 08/03/2004, you wrote:
> >All ,
> >
> >have succesfully configured exim, mailscanner and f-prot under Debian
woody.
> >Now I want to get the mail that I normally would get via POP3 from other
> >email accounts I have littered around the place and pass it through
> >Mailscanner.
> >
> >What I want to do is use GETMAIL to retrieve the mail which then has to
pass
> >it through to Mailscanner (how) and then pass it into a MAILDIR under my
> >/homedir after it has been scanned and antispammed.
> >
> >GETMAIL is no problem (to poll and download) but how do I send the email
> >into mailscanner and have it drop into my MAILDIR without it going
through
> >the exim process again .... have searched the list and the nearest I
could
> >come up with is
>
>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0402&L=mailscanner&P=R24949&
I=-1
> >Unfortunately this is not enough info for me and I surely cant be the
only
> >one that wants to do this.
> >
> >any help is appreciated.
> >
> >
> >thanks
> >
> >-Matt
> >
> >
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