I can compile fetchmail and it appears to work with Cygwin and NT, however it wants to
connect to an SMTP server (it doesn't simply
write into the ~/mail/mbox file. Hence I need an SMTP listener - is this procmail? -
to receive from fetchmail and I suppose this
(procmail) writes into ~/mail/mbox. Correct?
Unfortunately, procmail does not compile out-of-the-box under Cygwin/NT.
I was thinking that the fetchmail "-mta" or "-bsmtp" switch might make fetchmail put
the messages into ~/mail/mbox (so that I
wouldn't have to run an SMPT server), but saw the "Note that fetchmail's
reconstruction of MAIL FROM and RCPT TO lines is not
guaranteed correct; the caveats discussed under THE USE AND ABUSE OF MULTIDROP
MAILBOXES below apply" note in the manual page and
when I tried the "-bsmtp" switch, mutt didn't recognise the file created by fetchmail.
So, I think that if I want to use fetchmail, I need to be running a local SMTP server,
right? Does that mean procmail or sendmail,
because neither of these will compile under Cygwin without a few days hair pulling.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mutt Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: Mutt: Reading POP3 mail and moving the messages to folders based on To:
and Cc: headers, before the messages are read.
> Malcolm Boekhoff proclaimed on mutt-users that:
> > I want to retrieve messages from a POP3 mailbox and move them into folders
> > (using Mutt's pattern recognition expression operator
> > "~C") depending upon their To: or Cc: headers.
>
> Use fetchmail (or getmail if you are on windows) and procmail (or other mail
> filtering app which you can compile using cygwin and doze)
>
> --
> Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis
> mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI
> EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
