On Thursday 29 November 2001 07:05 pm, cmasters wrote: > Hope you don't mind the interruption. You may have noticed my slew of > postings about difficulties with sorting mail. I read your reponse to mean > that I may not even require the services of procmail, as I ~am~ using exim > as my MTA. Is this correct? I just want fairly simple pre-sorting of mail > before I read it with mutt.
Um -- I haven't followed the other threads too closely, so I'm not intimately familiar with your predicament. However, my recommendation is to use fetchmail, procmail and mutt together and cut exim out of the picture. Procmail has a nasty, ugly, horrible syntax, but it's a more flexible filtering program than exim. Also, once you get up to speed with fetchmail/procmail/mutt, you'll likely want to improve upon your filtering capabilities to cull spam and other niceties. That's where you probably want to have procmail. Fetchmail can use procmail as the MDA -- just put: mda "procmail" in your .fetchmailrc file and exim should be completely removed from the equation. You'll also want to modify your .procmailrc file to use formail, which will regenerate the "From" field so you don't lose your mail. (see man procmail for more info -- look for the -f option) Note: that's just my opinion on how I would do things It's worth about as much as the e-paper this is printed on. > No doubt a very helpful book. Unfortunately this "capital" city on the east > caost of Canada has just discovered that M$ is ~not~ the only OS. I'd have > to order said book, and wait 4 - 6 weeks for delivery of it. Not sure I can > go through another few weeks of this dilemma. One thing that I've learned in my time with linux is that there are always 472 different ways of doing the exact same damn thing. I cannot tell you how frustrating and wonderful that is, all at the same time. There is no "one right answer" for whatever you're trying to do. So, my advice is to pick one way that seems to make the most sense and stick with it. Once you get more comfortable with linux, you can go back and change things if you want. But if you keep jumping around to different configuration options, then you'll continue to spin your wheels and never get anything done. --kurt
