Re: Mutt questions (Was: Looking for a good mail program)

[Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com>]

On Saturday, 08 April 2000 at 01:07, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> 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?

either your MTA calls it to do local mail delivery after fetchmail
hands off its messages to it, or fetchmail can run it directly with,
IIRC, the mda option. I think debian may use procmail automatically
for at least some MTAs, so you could try just creating a .procmailrc
to see if it works. Otherwise you can use a .forward which pushes
things through procmail...

I'm no procmail expert, though.