cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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
Correction: fetchmail/getmail pipe the mail to your MDA. > 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. I doubt your mail is getting deleted. More likely, it's just not getting delivered because your MDA can't figure out where to deliver it. Check your exim queue with "exim -bp". -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bignachos.com
