On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:55:46AM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote:
> dave hoye muttered:
> > I would like to have fetchmail retrieve my messages from within mutt.
> > This way procmail is able to move the messages to the proper folders.
> > The way I currently have mutt configured, -all- of the mail goes to my
> > spool file (procmail evidently is not being run on these messages).
> > In order to get around this problem, I've been calling fetchmail
> > through a shell escape. I figure there should be a way to create a
> > macro that does this, but I haven't had any luck in mapping it to
> > mutt.
>
> You mean like:
> macro index \ea !fetchmail<enter> "run fetchmail"
>
> Configure fetchmail to use procmail as mda or have your MTA call
> procmail and you're done.
>
> Since I'm on a dialup I call fetchmail from my ip-up script which is
> more convenient for me.
That's the way it should be. Fetchmail gets email POP server and
delivers to port 25. From there, Sendmail delivers to the user. Then,
Procmail decides what to do further.
Mutt reads email, please!!!
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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
8 CPU cluster, (Slackware) Linux, Python, LaTeX, vim, mutt
