fetchmail + procmail setup
Well, since there seems to be a fair a number of people who can't figure this
out, I thought it might be helpful if I mailed my own setup. First of all read
the mail filtering FAQ (search yahoo for it). This describes more in detail
the system that I use. Anyway, this is how I do it.
In /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ a have a script called 'mail' which looks as follows:
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#!/bin/sh
fetchmail -d 180
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Then in /root I have the following .fetchmailrc (it's very simple, as this is
a single user machine):
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poll pop.prestel.co.uk with proto pop3
user <username> there has password <password>
is dave here
postconnect /usr/bin/runq
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In my home dir I have the following .forward :
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"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #dave"
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The /home/dave/.procmailrc looks like this:
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VERBOSE=off
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # Change to whichever dir mail is to be put in
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists # Add more recipe-files here if needed
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In /home/dave/.procmail/rc.maillists
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:0:
* ^TOOPENGL-GAMEDEV-L
IN.opengl
:0:
* ^TODebian-user
debian-user
:0:
* ^TODebian-devel
debian-devel
:0:
* ^TOdebian-private
debian-private
:0:
* ^TOdebian-mentor
debian-mentor
:0:
* ^TOdebian
debian-misc
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These recipes are not very advanced, but they work for me. debian-misc is
simply any debian stuff which doesn't go anywhere else. All that is needed
after this is to point your mailreader to ~/mail/debian-user or whatever.
Disclaimer: it is fully possible that the way I've done it is a horrendous
security hole, and that the world will implode if somebody looks at the setup
in the wrong way. I don't know, and it's not my fault :)
Cheers
Dave
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Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125
<dave@recursive.prestel.co.uk> |
<dsw@debian.org> | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation
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