Hi,
* Michael Herman [05/31/02 07:09:45 CEST] wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 06:55:06AM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> > * Michael Herman [05/31/02 06:39:48 CEST] wrote:
> > > 1. Even though my $MAIL is set correctly, I don't seem to be pulling
> > > mail from my spool, through procmail and into my various mail
> > > folders.
> > That is not mutt's job. Your local MTA should be set up to
> > use procmail for final delivery. Procmail will then sort
> > into different folders.
> I'm using fetchmail to retrieve the mail from my ISP account. I don't
> have a .forward file but when I seem to remember that procmail doesn't
> need one these days.
Your MTA (the one fetchmail delivers mail to) has to support
a per user forward file. If your MTA delivers directly to
the user's spoolfile then you need a ~/.forward in order to
make procmail work[1]. You don't need one if your MTA uses
procmail for final delivery -- or you advice fetchmail to
use procmail as your MDA (see fetchmail(1), option '-m').
If you're not really familar with changing the config of
your MTA then you may want to use ~/.forward or set up
fetchmail to deliver directly via procmail.
Cheers, Rocco
[1] You can also run formail with option '-s' to call
procmail.
