Re: fetchmail/procmail was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-04 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 04:19:31AM +, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 11:40:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We are probably wasting everyone's time now by not looking to see just what > > fetchmail/procmail interface actually i

Re: fetchmail/procmail was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-04 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Sun, May 03, 1998 at 11:40:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We are probably wasting everyone's time now by not looking to see just what > fetchmail/procmail interface actually is... > > As I understand it, the fetchmail/procmail interface is a kludge. No, actually it's a pipe.. =>

Re: fetchmail/procmail was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-04 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 11:39:44PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sun, 3 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' > > > > I don't think so Jason... > > > > Fetchmail is also pretty robust about mail handling but i

Re: fetchmail/procmail was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-03 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 3 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' > > I don't think so Jason... > > Fetchmail is also pretty robust about mail handling but it expect whatever > it 'hands a message too' to do something with the message. > > I won't even pretend to know the nat

Re: fetchmail/procmail was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-03 Thread Carl Mummert
The procmail documentation makes it clear that, if you have a 'real' mda which hands mail off to procmail via .forward, then if procmail fails it will leave the message enqueued in the mta. So if disk space is not a problem, install smail or sendmail along with procmail, and try that. Carl [EMAI

Re: fetchmail/procmail was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-03 Thread wrl
'From Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' I don't think so Jason... Fetchmail is also pretty robust about mail handling but it expect whatever it 'hands a message too' to do something with the message. I won't even pretend to know the nature of the problems but I suspect that it deals with the idea