<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Derek, I'm using bogofilter with postfix and fetchmail to download my messages (from various accounts) and then dovecot to read them using imap. What advantages would procmail give me over postfix? Thanks Derek Broughton wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:eolk74-0t7.ln1@pointerstop.ca" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Ricardo C O Freitas wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I would like to have all and every "mail" routines, running on the background! As I have multiples mailboxes to check, this would be very interesting. On my side, the question is: Is it really necessary to setup the following, Fetchmail, procmail, postfix and then kmail? Isn't there a faster, more straight forward way to perform such tasks? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Well, you absolutely don't need postfix. Fetchmail, procmail, kmail is a pretty simple setup. </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Kind Regards Russell ================== <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.windsorcycles.com.au">www.windsorcycles.com.au</a> bikes.no-ip.info Linux user #369094 ================== </pre> </body> </html>