[wplug] Simple email retreival with spamassassin and ClamAV

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Kevin Squire wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I currently have a simple setup, using a system wide fetchmail config
> that downloads email from 2 POP accounts then sends them trough
> spamassassin and puts them in /var/mail/$USER.  This works great for me,
> since Sylpheed and Mutt both use the mbox fomat.  But I did not realize
> that it would not work for for my wife, since she uses Thunderbird.

I don't think it's an mbox issue: I'm not sure that Thunderbird can check 
mail locally -- when I go to add a new account, the only options I'm 
presented with are 'POP-3' and 'IMAP'.  YOu may need to add an IMAP server 
as a go-between (this is easy, though).  Am I right about this?  Can one 
use thunderbird for local mail reading?

> What I would like to do is download the mail from both accounts, run
> them through spamassassin and ClamAV (which I do now within sylpheed,
> but want to change that) and then drop everything from account 1 into
> /var/mail/kevin and then drop everything from account 2 into both
> /var/mail/kevin and /home/val/Mail/Inbox/  I will continue to use the
> two accounts SMTP servers for sending mail.

I use procmail as the default mail delivery agent on my system, and it 
runs through spamassassin and clamav before delivering to either the 
default destination (/var/mail/user) or the user's personal mail 
directories (~user/mail/folders).  My IMAP server (dovecot) knows that 
those two locations are the places to look for mail.

Installation of both dovecot and procmail should be a cinch, as long as 
you don't need to secure them against the outside world (i.e. your wife 
will only ever check mail from in-network).

> Is anyone doing something similar? Maybe point me to a good HOWTO or can
> give me some kind of outline/guideance to their own setup?

I'd be happy to help you out either on-list or off, so let me know where 
your troubles lie.

-Brandon