Am 2007-03-24 10:46:15, schrieb Paul E Condon: > I've been following this thread precisely because I don't know how to > gain control over the email aspects of my Etch system. > > Prior posts in this thread, indicated that getmail could be used as a > replacement for fetchmail. But, I have come to depend on procmail to > sort my mail into topic-defined mail folders. Is doing this really > something that is very difficult? Where can I find more information? > - not a simple quick fix recipe, but a discussion of the issues and how to > address them.
One JOB one TOOL! "fetchmail" is fetching messages and deliver (by default) to localhost or /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME "procmail" is a Mail-Delivey-Agent (MDA). So you could setup "fetchmail" with: ----8<----------------------------------------------------------------- default mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" ... poll ... ... ----8<----------------------------------------------------------------- and "procmail" with ----8<----------------------------------------------------------------- MAILDIR=${HOME}/Maildir DEFAULT=${MAILDIR}/ LOGFILE=${HOME}/log/fetchmail.`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log ----8<----------------------------------------------------------------- which will deliver always to ~/Maildir/ if you do not setup additional recipes. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi 0033/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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