Greetings, Now that I have my printer running properly, I'm trying to tackle the problem of mail delivery. I've installed fetchmail, procmail, and exim, but I have yet to make them interact properly. For the moment I am using ~getmail~ (a fetchmail replacement) to poll my ISP and deliver my mail in a timely manner. I then read it from mutt and can send (obviously).
I'd like to be able to use the benefits of procmail though, so I thought I'd get some clarification on the actual process involved. This is what I understand would happen: 1. fetchmail (currently getmail) retrieves mail from ISP and hold it locally 2. procmail ~should~ then sort it according to recipes that I write 3. mutt reads the mail from any and ~all~ folders / mbox's that have been effected by the sorting My difficulty is that the few times I have tested fetchmail, it retrieves and then deletes ~all~ mail not expressly addressed to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". This means that mail from lists (including this one) is dropped before I am able to read it. It doesn't remain on my ISP's server, it just get dropped. I had thought that directing fetchmail to refer to procmail (ala the mda command) that sorting (~any~ pre-read deletion) would be done through procmail. Id appreciate it if someone would correct my reasoning and/or explain this better. If it would help, I will include the relevent rc files. Thank you, C. Masters
