021027 Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> I've got postfix/fetchmail/procmail setup
> I use Kmail
> I set the mail folder to: /home/darklord/Mail/inbox
> I have a dial-up connection.
> I logon, fetchmail does its thing, I can run Kmail and my mail is there.
> If I leave Kmail running, I never get mail,
> although I've got fetchmail set to poll at 5 minute intervals
> and Kmail set to poll at 5 min intervals.
> I'm assuming that fetchmail polls my ISP, grabs any mail,
> then Kmail polls my /home/darklord/Mail/inbox and grabs any mail there.
i use Mutt, but Kmail shouldn't be different in principle when receiving.
Fetchmail gets mail from ISPs & delivers it to the general mailbox;
Procmail processes this material & delivers it to your ~/dir/file of choice.
with my computer name 'purslow', i have in .fetchmailrc :
set postmaster "purslow"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
set daemon 600
poll pop.chass.utoronto.ca with proto POP3
user 'purslow' there with password '********' is 'purslow' here
and in .procmailrc :
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/current # this is the file Mutt shows at start
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/logfile
LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail
followed by a lot of filter lines to divert Expert, Cooker, spam etc
and in .muttrc :
set mail_check=600 # ie 10 min
everything works ok, tho' i notice i'm setting the polling interval twice.
HTH
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