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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:56:06 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Fabre?= <jffabre AT free DOT fr>
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Subject: Installing & configuring local POP or IMAP server
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Hi everyone,

I've asked and checked google and the archives, but I did not find the 
answer to my question:

I'm using Cygwin on WinXP. As I recieved several spam mails per day 
asking me whether I should have my penis enlarged or my breast size 
increased, I looked for a heuristic filtering tool and I found the 
excellent SpamAssassin.
I configured it with fetchmail & procmail and now my e-mails are 
filtered, and that's fine.

but the problem is I have to use a Cygwin mailing program to read my 
mail (such as pine), but I'm not fond of curses-based program that much 
and would prefer to use Netscape, as I did before I decide to install 
SpamAssassin.

So I've got to use Netscape in a different way, not polling the mail 
from my provider's remote pop3 server, but let fetchmail + the filters 
do it for me (they store it in /var/spool/mail). Then I guess I would 
have to poll "localhost" from Netscape using POP3 or IMAP protocol.
When I try to do that, Netscape answers that the connection to localhost 
has been refused. Ok,  that helps me a lot.

I've managed to make telnet & ftp work using the inetd.conf stuff and 
all the cryptic commands to start the inetd service, but I don't know if 
I can use fetchmail as a POP server, or if I have to install another POP 
server on cygwin, and if so, which one?

Bye

Jff



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