Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-30 Thread John Hasler
Vineet Kumar writes: > The config file is much nicer (no parsing of english-like sentences... Fetchmail doesn't parse any sentences. It just ignores the "noise words". > ...just plain old name=value style config That works fine with fetchmail. The silly "noise words" are optional. > It doesn'

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* John Patton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011129 16:56]: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:34PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > > The problem with this is that often, I have 300+ emails to then sort through > > one by one. I imnagine I could use those nifty 'save/send/folder ...' hooks > > for processing of mail ~

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-30 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:18:49AM +0800, csj wrote: | Seeking a little clarification: can procmail delete before download? Or | must it download then delete? I'm getting the impression that the Neither -- procmail does nothing with network connections. Procmail receives the mail message on st

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-30 Thread csj
On Friday 30 November 2001 08:41, John Patton wrote: > I don't know what getmail does, but fetchmail will gather your mail > from your ISP and will send it straight to exim (or sendmail, etc) > for processing. By default, exim will use procmail to sort your mail > if you have a procmail recipe in y

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:35:45PM -0400, cmasters wrote: | On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:41:01PM -0600, John Patton wrote: | > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:34PM -0400, cmasters wrote: | > Just look at the appropriate man pages for further details. It will | > require some work, but once set up will

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread cmasters
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:28:36AM +0100, Stephen Rueger wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:41:01PM -0600, John Patton wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:34PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > > > I don't know what getmail does, but fetchmail will gather your mail > > from your ISP and will send it

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread cmasters
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:41:01PM -0600, John Patton wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:34PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > > The problem with this is that often, I have 300+ emails to then sort through > > one by one. I imnagine I could use those nifty 'save/send/folder ...' hooks > > for processin

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread Stephen Rueger
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:41:01PM -0600, John Patton wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:34PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > I don't know what getmail does, but fetchmail will gather your mail > from your ISP and will send it straight to exim (or sendmail, etc) for > processing. By default, exim wil

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread John Patton
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:34PM -0400, cmasters wrote: > The problem with this is that often, I have 300+ emails to then sort through > one by one. I imnagine I could use those nifty 'save/send/folder ...' hooks > for processing of mail ~after~ I've recieved it, but I'd like to be able to > read

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread Brian Nelson
cmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > Although I'm sure my reasons are not unique, I thought I'd express them so > that perhaps they will explain my frustration at getting adequate mail > processing. > I then discovered that I could "fetch" my mail on regular intervals an have >

Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread John Hasler
C. Masters writes: > Simply, I want mail to be retrieved, pre-sorted, and ready for > viewing/saving/disposal whenever I log on to my computer. > Any thoughts? fetchmail->mailagent->{gnus|mutt} works for my wife and I. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route

2001-11-29 Thread cmasters
Greetings, Although I'm sure my reasons are not unique, I thought I'd express them so that perhaps they will explain my frustration at getting adequate mail processing. Previous to my current attempts, I (like many others) used mozilla and/or kmail to read/sort/file/save my mail. Quite frankly, I