Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Try running procmail on a mail server you don't have an account on
> > and your mailbox isn't actually physically owned by you anyway :)
>
> I have email from a _lot_ of places coming in to my mail server.
>
> Then I have fetchmail pull it down from there. I like my email to
> show up quick, and it's a fast and lightly-loaded mail server, so I
> use
>
> set daemon 5
> set logfile /home/bet/.fetchmail-log
> set postmaster bet
> set no bouncemail
> poll localhost
> protocol imap
> port 2000
Nice, but some people want to leave mail on the server so that they
can access it from other places as well.
A propos general e-mail woes ...
I run fetchmail in two places; both poll the same two mail servers. A
single polling cycle takes more than 5 seconds, often a lot longer,
because there are typically several hundred messages on each server,
and I'm using POP3. Unfortunately there is a bug somewhere which means
fetchmail sometimes goes mad and fetches several hundred messages
which it has already fetched. Also, I'm using mda "procmail -f -
RCPT=%T .../.procmailrc" in my .fetchmailrc because I want to sort
mail on the envelope address because I'm several mailbox names on the
mail server even though I'm only one user on the machine where I read
my e-mail. The whole set-up is held together with pieces of string.
Edmund
