I bypass the MTA for incoming mail. I've added
mda "/usr/local/bin/maildrop -f %F"
to my .fetchmailrc file for each POP mailbox. I don't know if this
works with procmail.
HTH,
Jeffrey
Quoting Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2000-01-13-07:18:21 Matthew Hawkins:
> > There seems to be a lot of detractors to the requested
> > functionality, however there's at least one valid case that mutt
> > can be in where the functionality is quite useful. This is when
> > the spoolfile is an IMAP INBOX folder. That folder could get mail
> > from a variety of places, and it makes sense for mutt to be able
> > to filter that mail into subfolders (hell, Netscape mail among
> > others can do it).
> >
> > 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
>
> Those last three are because I run a port-forwarding ssh to the mail
> server, and by using a high-numbered port I don't have to run the
> client as root. Fetchmail shoves the traffic into my local Postfix,
> which shoves it into procmail on my behalf, which files it in a
> bunch of folders for various mailing lists, for stuff it recognizes
> as spam, etc. Mutt watches all those folders.
>
> -Bennett
