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From: BubbaT on 27 Jun 2008 20:53 Here is my basic setup. I am runing one computer, which runs dual boot XP and debian. I have installed dsl on a small VM for the purposes of retrieving, processing and storing it in a folder accessible to both OSs. I also expect I will be reprocessing the email later as I refine my processing rules. Generally the kind of things I expect to do are: 1) Remove duplicate emails. 2) Sort mailing lists into a seperate subfolder. 3) Remove empyt email messages. 4) I want to remove the forwarding messages of messages forwarded from a different account of mine. 5) Many other that escape my memory right now. I have many different email accounts oon many different servers. My knowledge of the MTAs/MDAs out there is minimal. Can someone I don't want to read the manual of each one that I might use. Can someone recommend what I shoiuld use? Thanks BubbaT
From: Jean-David Beyer on 27 Jun 2008 22:28 BubbaT wrote: > Here is my basic setup. I am runing one computer, which runs dual boot XP > and debian. I have installed dsl on a small VM for the purposes of > retrieving, processing and storing it in a folder accessible to both OSs. > > > I also expect I will be reprocessing the email later as I refine my > processing rules. Generally the kind of things I expect to do are: 1) > Remove duplicate emails. 2) Sort mailing lists into a seperate subfolder. > 3) Remove empyt email messages. 4) I want to remove the forwarding > messages of messages forwarded from a different account of mine. 5) Many > other that escape my memory right now. > > > I have many different email accounts oon many different servers. > > My knowledge of the MTAs/MDAs out there is minimal. Can someone I don't > want to read the manual of each one that I might use. Can someone > recommend what I shoiuld use? > Probably the best MTA to use is the one that comes with your distro. In my case it would be sendmail, because that comes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and, also, I am familiar with it. In the past, I used sendmail to both send mail and to receive it. With my current ISP, I cannot really use it to receive e-mail, since they do not allow me to run servers unless I pay a lot more money for a static IP address and the right to run a mail server. If you are serious about it, you might wish to also run spam assassin on it and you might also wish to consider running fetchmail since you say you have a lot of e-mail accounts. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 22:20:01 up 2 days, 7:40, 4 users, load average: 4.06, 4.04, 4.04
From: Maxwell Lol on 28 Jun 2008 10:19 BubbaT <root(a)box.com> writes: > Here is my basic setup. I am runing one computer, which runs dual boot XP > and debian. I have installed dsl on a small VM for the purposes of > retrieving, processing and storing it in a folder accessible to both > OSs. > > I also expect I will be reprocessing the email later as I refine my > processing rules. Generally the kind of things I expect to do are: > 1) Remove duplicate emails. > 2) Sort mailing lists into a seperate subfolder. > 3) Remove empyt email messages. > 4) I want to remove the forwarding messages of messages forwarded from > a different account of mine. > 5) Many other that escape my memory right now. This sounds like stuff that can be done with a MUA (Mail User Agent). For example, procmail. It has nothing to do with the protocol for transferring mail from one machine to another. I have a mail server on a permanent IP/domain site, and all mail from multiple aliases go to one mailbox. I use procmail to split/filter/etc incoming mail.
From: BubbaT on 28 Jun 2008 19:07 On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:19:55 -0400, Maxwell Lol wrote: > BubbaT <root(a)box.com> writes: > > > This sounds like stuff that can be done with a MUA (Mail User Agent). > For example, procmail. It has nothing to do with the protocol for > transferring mail from one machine to another. > Uhm. procmail is not a MUA it's a MDA. http://partmaps.org/era/procmail/mini-faq.html#description
From: Maxwell Lol on 29 Jun 2008 23:20
BubbaT <root(a)box.com> writes: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:19:55 -0400, Maxwell Lol wrote: > >> BubbaT <root(a)box.com> writes: >> >> >> This sounds like stuff that can be done with a MUA (Mail User Agent). >> For example, procmail. It has nothing to do with the protocol for >> transferring mail from one machine to another. >> > Uhm. procmail is not a MUA it's a MDA. > http://partmaps.org/era/procmail/mini-faq.html#description Okay. But my point is that it is not a MTA, and has nothing to do with transferring mail between machines. Also - you can install it without admin priviledges. |