On 9/06/19 6:36 AM, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
On 2019-06-07 05:08, Frank Watt wrote:
| However, fetchmail has a -m option, which can probably deliver directly
| to procmail, bypassing the local mail system entirely.
Looks like that's not as simple as I'd hoped.
I'm sort of jumping in blind here -- don't know exactly what you're
trying to do -- but have you considered other software? Getmail is an
The aim has changed several times since this thread's subject at which
time, I was trying to compile a newer version of mutt so that I could
avoid sendmail; then found out that fetchmail still required sendmail
and wouldn't use nullmailer. Then tried to find out about maildrop to
replace procmail.
alternative to fetchmail; getmail can deliver to local mailboxes
directly. And apparently there's something called fdm that does
retrieval, filtering, and delivery.
I'll look into getmail which might avoid all the roadblocks so far
encountered. Thanks for the suggestions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetchmail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getmail
https://github.com/nicm/fdm
