On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Arie Folger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Kmail for my email browsing, and rather like it. However, I would like
> to be able to download my email without firing up X, and would like the email
> to be filtered and saved in the mbox formatted folders I use with kmail.
>
> Now, IIUC, fetchmail will fetch all the messages from my remote accounts and
> save them in the /var/spool/mail directory where sendmail would save mail,
> until my mail cliient would request it. What I want is one step further:
> saving the messages in my personal inbox, and may be even apply filters.
Fetchmail can do this. I have those lines in .fetchmailrc:
skip xxx.co.il with proto POP3
user "xx" password "xx" mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d %T' fetchall
So procmail does filtering and delivery.
> Will fetchmail leave the from and to addresses untouched, or will it change
> the to address to <my username>@localhost (my machine has no alias or fixed
> IP address)?
I don't know if it might be able to do this, but with my configuration
the only headers fetchmail touches are Received:.
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Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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