On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:31:39PM +0200, Stefan Friedle wrote: > I use fetchmail to fetch mail from my POP account and use procmail to > deliver it to my local maildir (~/Maildir/inbox/). All with cygwin on > Windows NT. In my .fetchmailrc there is a line: > > mda: 'procmail -m D:/home/.procmailrc'
I tried this in my .fetchmailrc (substituting my pathname) but got a parse error. After checking the documentation, I tried mda -m "procmail -d %T -m e:/.procmailrc" but that failed with a parse error too. Invoking procmail with a fetchmail command line argument (--mta 'procmail -m e:/.procmailrc') _did_ work, but it wrote out an mbox without From-lines. After further research, I tentatively concluded that this was a Procmail problem -- that Procmail perhaps needed to run in "explicit delivery mode". I discovered that the Unixmail Perl script which hitherto had functioned (flawlessly) as my MTA was prepending "%" to my email address in the "From" line and that if I did not add these by hand, Mutt could not parse the messages that had been delivered From-less by Procmail. It would appear that the %T and %F are key to both (the Perl script takes %%F as an argument to generate "From [EMAIL PROTECTED]"), but I can only infer what they mean. I have searched for documentation of these "escapes" in several man pages and cached documentation (fgrep '%F') but have not yet gotten to the bottom of it. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Does Mutt need to have a "%"-escaped username or username@domain, and are the %T and %F "escapes" a cross-platform (*nix/Win32) way to get these? Or am I in the wrong list to pose the question? Thanks, Tom -- Dr. Thomas Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven mobile +49-171-408-5784 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-14-2619
