Mail and DNS setup

[Depo Catcher]

On 8/20/2010 2:42 AM, Joshua Isom wrote:
> On 8/19/2010 8:06 PM, RW wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:44:46 -0500
>> Depo Catcher<depocatcher at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>> getmail + qmail + procmail replacement + courier-imap = win?
>>
>> Why use an mta at all? getmail was specifically designed to avoid that.
>>
>> You can just do something like:
>>
>> getmail ->  procmail ->  whatever
>>
>> getmail ->  dovecot-deliver+sieve plugin
>
>
> I use getmail, dovecot, and postfix.  I have getmail and postfix 
> forwarding to dovecot with sieve, and a root .forward file for 
> receiving server logs and filtering to a directory of their own.  I 
> haven't integrated dspam and the dovecot-antispam plugin in yet but 
> will. Postfix doesn't handle anything other than local mail, and even 
> then only logs.
>
> The main trouble I had was getting the local storage layout the way 
> *I* wanted instead of defaults, `mail_location = 
> maildir:/var/mail/%u:LAYOUT=fs:INBOX=/var/mail/%u`.  I was also able 
> to import and filter all of my Mail.app 1.3 mail via a simple perl 
> script I wrote using /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver.  With the 
> getmail/refilter trick, fixing sieve problems can be easy and has it 
> almost all server side.
>

hrm, thanks.  Dovecot looks pretty nice.  I like Courier, but might have 
to give this a spin on a test box.