Arvid
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:24 +0100, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote:
> anyone can recommend an imap server?
> Tried courier but i really dislike it. I don't run exim as root so courier
> will just disconnect the client without any warning whatsoever becouse the
> mails are owned by exim and not the user. (although the user can write them
> through group rights). which is not acceptable.
I was going to recommend courier as that is what I use, and I'm not
seeing this
kind of behaviour. I have a set up where a Debian (etch/stable/4.0)
system
receives a copy of all e-mail for fail-over/backup - just in case the
main
mail server (Exchange, spit, spit) dies. I've not heard any complaints
from
the users (Outlook/IMAP) having their IMAP connections get dropped.
I have heard them say that every now and then Outlooks locks up as it
appears to
go off and read all the IMAP message headers. There doesn't appear to
be any
caching going on. We've attributed this to poor/deliberate programming
on M$'s
part to "encourage" you to use Exchange. If anyone knows differently
then
please let me know what the fix is - thanks.
> Also i'd like to filter spam into INBOX.Spam as well as mailing lists into
> INBOX.SomeLists directly by exim. i figured i could use .forward, but it is
> fairly limited. any other ideas to do that?
Take a look at exim filters. You can use either system wide filters or
account
filters, depending upon your requirements. The filter condition can
activate a
named transport on a header match so looking for "List-Id" containing
"exim-users.exim.org" could be used to filter emails from this list into
the
appropriate mailbox.
In the past I have used filters to divert spam, but on the
recommendation of some
on this list I've just switched to using SpamAssassin parsing on the
data ACL
(check the archives for details) and now filter spams using the exim
routers that
check the $spam_score_int thus:
begin routers
maybe_spam:
no_verify
driver = accept
transport = maybe_spam_delivery
condition = "${if > {$spam_score_int}{20} {yes} {no} }"
begin transports
maybe_spam_delivery:
driver = appendfile
directory = /home/spam/Maildir/.spam_maybe
directory_mode = 0750
mode = 0600
user = spam
group = mail
maildir_format
create_directory
Hope this helps
Steve
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