running procmail automatically from smail, and a question about POP
Hello. Sorry if this isn't quite the right place to ask this - I have
looked around and can't seem to find the answer. I've got a lot of
linux experience, but I only recently had to start dealing with mail
being delivered to my local machines.
I would like "procmail" to be run automatically (using the addressee's
.procmailrc) on all mail being delivered to my local users, and I'm
running "smail". I was kind of surprised that the "procmail" package
didn't ask me if I would like it to set that up for me, but I suppose
given that one might be running sendmail, smail, or qmail (at least
:-), I suppose it might be kind of complicated for the package to do
that.
Another question I have is what packages are needed to pop mail
to/from a linux box to an NT box? I want my wife to be able to send
and receive mail from with netscape when running NT. I installed
"qpopper", "popclient", and "poppassd", and the outgoing mail gets
popped to the linux box (which is my mail gateway) with no problems.
However, I can't seem to get it to pop the mail from linux to the NT
box.
I ran "popauth" and added the users I wanted to be able to pop mail -
then I get messages in the logs about needing to use "APOP". I
assume netscape (v3.0) isn't talking APOP. If I just run "popauth
-init", then I simply never receive mail from the linux box.
The only strange thing about my setup is that I have all mail being
delivered into the users accounts. So, if I'm user "foo", my mail
gets delivered into "~foo/.mailspool/foo". I wondered if "in.qpopper"
would know where to look for the mail :-)
Thanks for any hints, suggestions, or pointers to FAQs!
Later,
Dale
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