* Patrick Shanahan <ptilopt...@gmail.com> [02-05-09 09:08]: > > No, you do not *need* postfix, but your MDA *must* deliver to procmail > in some manner. You may process the mail with procmail: > formail -ds procmail -m <recipe.file> <mail.file> > formail -ds procmail <mail.file> > > The crux is that the MDA *must* deliver to procmail. >
On further thought, or whatever that process should be called, the above is not entirely true. It is quite possible to accept the mail whereever your MDA places it, I assume it is consistent and in one place, and run a cron job to have that place/file processed via procmail and delivered to *different* location/file. Then just don't access the location that the MDA delivers with your email client. I believe there exists a utility similar to cron that works on the existance of a defined file that you could use instead of cron to achieve the above, but I cannot recall the name of that utility, perhaps "incron". -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org
