Darn, I forgot: When delivering to mbox, be sure to use locking (hence, start a procmail recipe with ":0:" rather than ":0"). You don't want multiple procmail processes to be active in one of your mailboxes at the same time. When using maildir (like in my setup that I just sent you), this is not necessary (because each message is delivered into a separate file). You can find more information about this in Nancy's quick start document.
Auke On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 11:37, Auke Jilderda wrote: > On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 09:36, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > this is what i had been doing. the problem is that all mail clients > > fetch mails. many of them i delete. i would prefer to download only > > headers, delete headers off the server and download only the messages i > > need. any way to set it up? > Earlier posts already answered this to be impossible, I believe. > > > my .fetchmailrc seems to be doing it properly. i have tried fetchmail > > -c. it runs withour errors. > > > > i am new to procmail, but may be i can do some reading here and use it > Have a look at Nancy McGough's "Procmail quick start" [1]. > > > can i use mozilla to read mail fetched by fetchmail? > > > > i had been trying it without much success. > > > > this is interesting but way too ahead for me > > > > well, anything that will help me is welcome > > Reading your mail from mozilla is just a matter of delivering it to a > mailbox in the proper format, see [2] for an explanation and examples. I > have never used Mozilla but I'm pretty sure it uses mbox format, like > Netscape and, hence, your procmail rules should look like the left-most > examples in the table. E.g. to filter debian-user traffic to the > ~/mail/in-l-debian-user mailbox, you might have a procmail rule like > this: > :0 > * ^X-Mailing-List:.*debian-user@lists\.debian\.org > in-l-debian-user > Be aware though, with procmail you're entering the powerful but > challenging world of regular expressions... ;-) > > I'll send you my procmail and exim configuration (in private mail, don't > want to bother the list with attachments), that will probably help you > up to speed. > > > Auke > > 1. http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ > 2. http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/#mailboxFormats > > -- > PGP: 0x4A34DD6D, http://bunny.sourceforge.net/ -- PGP: 0x4A34DD6D, http://bunny.sourceforge.net/
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