Re: losing mails
Alexandre Rossi on Friday 21 Jul 2006 17:16 wrote:
>
>> 3) Why is this happening and where might have the lost mails gone ?
>
> Try to put a catch-all rule at the end of your .procmailrc .
> Did you put a slash at the end of your procmail rule to instruct
> procmail to use the Maildir format?
>
> example :
> :0
> * ^List-Id: <debian-news.lists.debian.org>
> .computers.debian/
>
> You needn't consider the cur/new stuff in procmail. Simply say Maildir/
>
This is something I was missing. My .procmailrc has only "Maildir" and not the
trailing "/"
I also didn't have a default delivery. That could have been the reason for some
mails disappearing. BTW, in no rule applies, where does procmail put those
mails ?
>> 4) What configuration settings people use on their laptops in the
>> context of mail ?
>
> I use UUCP over SSH. It's great for laptops if you own a server.
> To use your laptop with gmail, the difficult part is sending mail.
> There is an howto but it seems complicated.
> http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/postfix_tutorial.html
>
I tried it. But it didn't work. Looks to be a known issue.
Instead I shifted to exim4 which works like a charm with gmail.
Just in case someone else also wants to refer:
http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4
Thanks,
Ritesh
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