Hi Steve
I've got the fetchmail part of my new configuration working fine :)
The problem still lies however with moving my mail from netscape to
pine. I am simply getting all the messages as one big message when I
try.
perhaps there's a way to individually run each message in my netscape
files through procmail? I could rebuild my mail fies that way...
thanks for you help anyway
regards,
Chris Dowling.
"Steven W. Orr" wrote:
>
> I think I understand what your problem is, but I hope someone else can explain
> it better than me.
>
> I use fetchmail as my pop3 client. When I was first trying to set it up, I
> found that I was getting one big message, instead of getting lots of
> properly sized messages. The solution for me was to use the following
> .fetchmailrc:
>
> poll world.std.com
> protocol pop3
> username steveo
> is steveo
> password fatchance
> mda procmail
>
> The key was the mda line which ran me through procmail. My
> .procmailrc used formail:
>
> :0
> | formail >> /var/spool/mail/steveo
>
> It was the formail that broke the messages up.
>
> Since that time, I successfully used a program called
> install-sendmail which asks a few rude questions and then emits a few
> sendmail configuration files as well as a .fetchmailrc.
>
> Now my .fetchmailrc no longer uses procmail as the mda, but I don't
> know why it's no longer needed. My new .fetchmail:
>
> poll world.std.com
> proto pop3
> user steveo with pass fatchance is steveo
> here forcecr smtpaddress localhost
>
> Can someone explain why I needed formail before but now I don't?
>
> The plot thickens!
>
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>
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Chris Dowling wrote:
>
> =>Hey folks.
> =>
> =>I'm currently using netscape as my mail reader.
> =>
> =>I want to change this to use pine. The problem is that when I load up a
> =>mail file that came from netscape in pine a lot of messages are dropped
> =>of, or get bundled into one (huge) message. I will admit that the files
> =>in question are quite large.
> =>
> =>Anyhoo: has anyone else come accross this problem? does anyone know
> =>what's causing it? does anyone know how to fix it?
> =>
> =>Here's my current hypothesis: pine has a header message at the top of
> =>the mail file. if it is not there then it will insert it. I believe that
> =>this "message" is an idex of sorts. when I just use the file sraight
> =>from netscape, pine has troubles indexing the file and screws up the
> =>index? I don't really know. maybe there's some arbtrary limit on the
> =>file size?
> =>
> =>Any help is appreciated.
> =>
> =>Regards,
> =>Chris Dowling.
> =>
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