Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting David Raeker-Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Currently, I use fetchmail to get my email from my ISP. Fetchmail passes the > > mail to procmail, which uses a few rules and spamassasin to sort the mail > > into folders. I use exim, but I am afraid I am a bit fuzzy as to > > its role in delivering incoming mail. Does procmail pass the mail to exim, > > or does procmail deliver the mail it sorts? > > > > Procmail delivers the mail it sorts. It can accept mail directly from > fetchmail or fetchmail can hand the mail to exim. And exim hands it > to procmail.
If fetchmail hands-off to procmail, and procmail delivers the mail, then how does procmail know to deliver in Maildir format (or even mbox format, for that matter) Here is my fetchmailrc: poll "in.epix.net" protocol pop3 username "david" here is "rkrjrdn" there password "itsasecret" mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %s" options fetchall ## End of fetchmailrc Looks like fetchmail passes the mail directly to procmail. Here is my procmailrc: PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail # make sure this is right DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/username # completely optional LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail.log # recommended SPAM=/home/david/mail/spam :0: * ^X-Mailing-List:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/david/mail/In-debian-user :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/david/mail/In-down-syn :0: * To:.*rkrjrdn /home/david/mail/In-rkrjrdn ## End of procmailrc It looks like procmail delivers the mail, right? What would I change to get procmail to deliver the mail to directories under ~/Maildir? -- David Raeker-Jordan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/CD956608
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