-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, SirDibos wrote:
> I second the motion. Smail has been nothing but a headache for me. I was > *so* releived to get fetchpop working, so that I could bypass the need to > pass my mail thru port 25 on my own machine for delivery. > > pine + fetchpop + procmail serves all my email needs. (Im not up 24/7, so > its ok ;)) > > speaking of which. if I packaged up fetchpop, could it get included in > debian? I much prefer it to fetchmail. if only fetchmail had a -o or a > localfolder option! Also, fetchpop guides you thru creation of the > appropriate config file the first time you run it. *and* it pipes the > stuff transparently thru procmail for you. Which is a bonus, since it > always screwed up when I tried cat /var/spool/mail/$USER |procmail, and > didnt work at *all* when I just plain ran procmail by itself Try fetchmail's `-m' option. For example: #!/bin/sh fetchmail -a myserver -m "$HOME/bin/my.processing.script" Where $HOME/bin/my.processing.script is just: #!/bin/sh formail -Y -I Status: -s procmail It works for me. BTW: There will be a completely GPLed procmail in hamm soon. Could we make it the "standard MDA" as well? :-) [ Red-Hat *already* does this ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBM6EUiiqK7IlOjMLFAQFJWQQAnH+j7HX7OVl2d6kVj0QGs0gK+jJFhC8x 6xdF/VIm1C/d+GHHD0WvVDY7Cs4bKpoY0noYntTrpYKq4fgblkIaAJa7erqugJCM WGcQHvU8yTRob7L7L0CixHw0eZRbqFG5wCwBFW9ZAvmd/pfls0v7UTFgoEE0Vvk1 h5ajatk/jPE= =xz+7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
