hi all i want to know that "Is it necessary to use procmail and dovecot at the same time with postfix" or i can use only one out of them... i search it too much on the web but not find any value able information.
Postfix is your SMTP server which is used for sending out emails, dovecot on the other hand while still being part of a mailserver instead handles IMAP/POP3 which are two different things. So yes in order to run a proper mailserver you would need both of these, thats not to say you need to use these products specifically (I use postfix/courier) you simply need to be running applications that are capable of handling the SMTP and IMAP/POP protocols. As for procmail I don't run that on my mailserver (at least to my knowledge ) but I believe it is basically used to process or filter (sort) incoming and outgoing mail on the server, it possibly also needs to be used in conjunction with something else. A thing like this isn't necessary in order to run a mailserver but I would certainly recommend something of the kind. Thanks.
hi geekman i am very thankfull to u for this kind information.hope u will be here for more help and guidance.thanks again.. bilal
hi all i have installed procmail. and i do not know that "how i can check that is procmail is working or not" bilal
You can check your mail log. Ususally it says something like "... delivered to /usr/bin/procmail" if procmail is used.
hi falko i am very thank full to u i got value able information.i need some more help coz my procmail dose not filtrinig mails. my configration files are places on these placess .forward file at /home/.forward and its syntex is "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #[email protected]" and .procmailrc is located at /home/.procmail/.procmailrc its syentex is # .procmailrc # routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Makedir PMDIR=$MAILDIR LOGFILE=$HOME/.rocmail/procmail.log LOGABSTRACT=no SHELL=/bin/sh ##################### } # unwanted subjects :0 D * ^Subject.*(READ THIS) { EXITCODE = $EX_UNAVAILABLE :0 i $SPAM } due to above racepe porocmail must filter the mails having subjects like "read this " type of mails but it not working ... plz help bilal
it mean that i have to make these files for every user OR as i enable in my main.cf file mail_owner=postfix can i have to make a user named postfix??? and placed these files to this users home directory? OR can i place them to root?
For every user that you want to use this procmail recipe. But you could also create a global recipe, /etc/procmailrc, which is used if not .procmailrc is found in the user's homedir. And instead of creating a .forward file in each user's homedir, you can simply put Code: mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail into /etc/postfix/main.cf and restart Postfix.
hi falko how r u. due to kind guidness my procmail startng to work.but there are still some problems. The problems are as follows. 1- my .procmailrc file and .forward file is in root home diractory but it not working. 2- the second one is that when i mail from user to root it not work please help me ... bilal
postfix could not send mail to web hi falko how are you.I got valueable information from you. I am very thankful to you. i got a new problem that my mail server postfix could not able to send mail over the web e.g i want to send mail to a persion who is using mail address at yahoo.com.what i need to do.I am already using a DNS in my resolv.conf hope you replay me soon bilal
Please check if your server got blacklisted: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx Also, do you have an SPF record for your domain?
Postfix+Dovecot+Procmail+Spamassasin In my work have mail server... Postfix is STMP Server... send Emails Dovecot is POP/IMAP Server receive Emails Procmails is a Mail Filter Spamassasin is a No SPAM server... Serch a How To in Google for one of this servers and final how to intragrate this servers togueter... hope this help
