I currently use exim, fetchmail, and mutt, and have an exim .forward file to sort my mail into different mbox format files.
As I've looked at other email clients, the handling of incoming mail has seemed problematic. Sylpheed, for example, uses mh format mailboxes, and apparently exim can't deliver to such boxes (unless mh is another name for one of the formats it does). Other clients use their own db format (e.g., pronto and I think evolution). Do I just need to turn fetchmail off with such clients, and forget about using the rules in the .forward file? Or is there some other way? And even if I turn fetchmail off, I still have local mail on my system that I need to get. Not sure how to handle that. Putting this slightly differently, are there two models of mail clients: a unixy way, in which other agents retrieve and send mail; and a windowsy way, in which the client integrates all these functions? And if I pick a client with a windows model, does that mean I should ditch using a mail transport agent such as exim, and associated tools (maybe procmail too, though I currently use exim for that kind of functionality)? By the way, the final stage of mail delivery is already through a process for me (I wrote a script to catch duplicate mails and throw them out, since I kept getting my mail downloaded repeatedly). So it would be easy to change what the process does. P.S. I think I read that procmail can deliver to mh format, so it might solve that particular problem. But I'm not too keen on introducing another component, much less converting my exim filter rules to procmail format. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
