Re: Exim + Procmail + Mutt
Subject: Re: Exim + Procmail + Mutt
Date: Sat, May 08, 1999 at 04:41:24PM +0200
In reply to:J Horacio M G
Quoting J Horacio M G(homega@vlc.servicom.es):
> ~ Exim is kind of like a MTA+MDA in one; to a degree, it does what
> ~ smail+procmail does.
>
> I fear that the "to a degree" bit will be meaningful here.
>
> ~ That in mind, you can uninstall procmail, and have exim do all of your
> ~ mail sorting. (You'll need take your procmail recipies, convert them
> ~ to exim's language, and stick them in your ~/.forward.)
>
> Just a bit lost here... all I have to do is create an empty ~/.forward
> file, and rewrite my procmail recipes into it? is that all, or do I
> have to tell exim to look for (and where is) .forward?
Not quite. The syntax for the .forward file in exim is not the same
as the filters in procmail. Some think they are easier/better.
Anyway, I would suggest you look into /usr/doc/exim/. There are doc
files there that will assist you in setting up the forward file and
exim.conf. We could tell you what/how to do it to make it work but
you will learn a lot more by doing it yourself.
I'm sure you would prefer that, wouldn't you?
You will find that you don't 'have' to use exim as the MDA, you could
make a .forward file that directs all the mail to your current
.procmailrc. See what you can learn by looking at the docs!
>
> ~ For example, here is what I have in my ~/.forward to filter this
> ~ mailing lists' posts:
>
> ~ # Exim filter
> ~ # take care of mailing list debian-user
> ~ if
> ~ $header_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-user@lists.debian.org
> ~ then
> ~ save <my_mail_directory>/debian-user
> ~ finish
> ~ endif
> ~ # enf of debian-user filter
>
> ~ This works, although I think I liked smail+procmail better,
> ~ personally. <shrug>
>
> Agreed... well, sort of; may be exim works better than smail, and I'll
> probably be glad I changed the MTA, but somehow I feel uncomfortable
> with droping procmail as my MDA. Ummh, I think I'll try to get by with
> Exim for a while until I learn how to install and configure Qmail, which
> I think it interacts well with Procmail.
>
> Meanwhile, I used to have this in my ~/.procmailrc:
>
> PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
> MAILDIR=~/Mail
> LOGDIR=/var/log
> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox
> LOGFILE=$LOGDIR/procmail.log
> LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail
>
> which would make mail go to ~/Mail/ instead of /var/spool/mail/user, and
> then the tipical procmail recipes to process mail to the different
> mailboxes within ~/Mail/; and ~/Mail/mbox as the default mailbox where
> non rule processed mail would go to... I see this bit in /etc/exim.conf:
>
> local_delivery:
> driver = appendfile
> group = mail
> mode = 0660
> mode_fail_narrower = false
> file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}
>
> I hope changing it to:
>
> file = ~/Mail/mbox
>
> will work... not sure... I'll give it a try... NO! it didn't work:
>
> 1999-05-08 16:36:39 Exim configuration error for local_delivery
> transport:
> the file option must specify an absolute path
> Error al mandar mensaje, 1 ().
> Presione una tecla para continuar...
> (Error to send message, 1 ()
> Press a key to continue...)
>
> Let's see with the full /home/horacio/Mail/mbox path
>
> Thanks
>
> Horacio
>
>
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