On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:18:18PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > > However, when you make fetchmail deliver directly to procmail, fetchmail
> > > does not generate a "From " line at all, and neither does procmail - big
> > > barf results. In that case, use fetchmail -> formail | procmail.
> >
> > I believe that this is misleading/incorrect information. I have
>
> > mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d %T'
>
> That's interesting - I would have expected procmail to generate the
> From_ but it surely didn't with
> fetchmail --mda 'procmail </dev/null >>"$logfile" 2>&1'
>
> Perhaps the explicit delivery mode (-d) makes the difference, there's
> also -f- but you're not using that. But the main thing is we get it
> working.
>
> Volker
>
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>
It seems that is exactly the problem. with just plain mda 'procmail'
/var/spool/mail/.... is not seen as a proper mailbox but with -d %T
options it's ok. I'm not sure if this is the case with others but it
seems that way here. But what do I care I only use mutt itself to check
my pop mail anyhow.
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Chad Young
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