Re: Mutt questions (Was: Looking for a good mail program)
Hallo Viktor!
Viktor Rosenfeld schrieb am Samstag, dem 08. April 2000:
> Brendan Cully wrote:
> > > - Can Mutt automatically move incoming mail into different folders?
> >
> > sort of. usually that's done with procmail. but you could probably use
> > the "push" command and folder hooks to move things when you open your
> > spool. I personally use procmail on my IMAP server.
>
> Ahh, this I don't quite understand. I always donwloaded my mail from a
> POP3 server, and then had Netscape sort it into various inboxes.
>
> I thought, that I would now use fetchmail to get my mail from the POP3
> server (actually from more than one) and have it all appended to my
> mailbox in /var/spool/mail and the MUA would then process it
> appropriatly. So where does procmail come into the game?
Fetchmail fetches the mails from the imap|pop3 server and hands it on
to your MTA (exim or sendmail or such).
Your MTA will put the mail into your mailbox or, if configured right
hand each mail over to procmail which will sort the mails into one or
more folders (or do other interesting stuff with them).
Your MUA will just read the mails (and then move them around again if
you want :)
yours,
peter
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