Buffy and Biff were/are slang names for generic yuppie scum. Biff
is *the* original program to notify a user about mail. Xbiff is a
version for X. Xbuffy is an improved version. Buffy the vampire
slayer came along after the original yuppie scum.
HTH,
Jeffrey
Quoting Russell Hoover <[EM
Alex,
I do this all the time (my wife is on AOL and I bounce items of
interest to her). I haven't had any problem. AOL can send and
receive normal e-mail over the Internet. I have heard reports of
e-mail taking hours to a day to make it in or out of AOL.
Jeffrey
Quoting Alex Lane <[EMAIL PR
I bypass the MTA for incoming mail. I've added
mda "/usr/local/bin/maildrop -f %F"
to my .fetchmailrc file for each POP mailbox. I don't know if this
works with procmail.
HTH,
Jeffrey
Quoting Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2000-01-13-07:18:21 Matthew Hawkins:
> > There seems to be a
If you find procmail too hard to use, you might also look at maildrop.
Another plus is that it works with Maildir mailboxes without patches.
The filtering rules are quite readable.
HTH,
Jeffrey
I am having problems getting my mail. I have two question, one OT. I
have 'G' bound to a fetchmail macro. 1) How can I invoke the original
binding 'fetch-mail'? From the docs, I would expect ':fetch-mail' to
work. Mutt complains about an unknown command. 2) Fetchmail is using
maildrop as an
How do I tell qmail (or maybe it's fetchmail) what time zone I am in?
My hardware clock is on UTC (clock -au is run a boot time). The date
command reports the correct time zone. This is on my laptop, so UTC
seems the best choice for the hardware clock. My ISP is in Texas
(CDT). Some part of my
I am looking for a program to merge two e-mail files/directories. The
most immediate need is to be able to download my e-mail from either my
laptop or my desktop and later merge the two (I'm using ~/Maildir/
format). It would also do the same with different formats so when I
change e-mail client
