8 Jul
2018
8 Jul
'18
10 a.m.
On Sunday 08 July 2018 09.56:07 Gene Heskett wrote:
fetchmail feeds procmail, who proceeds to check
incoming for viri and
spam, and sends several phony illegits to /dev/null, the spam gets
graded by spamassassin but still comes into kmail by being placed
in /var/mail/me. procmail can also generate other names depending on who
its from. Where mailwatcher comes into play is it launches an instance
of inotifywait to watch /var/mail, returning the name of the file that
the mail was written to when its closed. That triggers a dbus msg to
kmail to go get the mail, and it relaunches another instance of
inotifywait to replace the one that died returning the filename.
Well, I'll sound as a noob, but what exactly does this (to me) very
complicated way of doing bring?
I mean, for 20 years almost I've been "simply" downloading my mail with
kmail,
using a few filters to post the messages to directories for clarity.
I used to run spam filters, but since i got modern and also read my mail on a
smartphone I had to hire an external service for that.
Thierry
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Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?