RE: Exim filters instead of procmail?
On 29-May-99 Phillip Deackes wrote:
> I am now successfully using exim instead of sendmail. I use fetchmail
> and procmail for fetching my mail from my IP's POP server and sorting it
> into folders. I understand exim has its own mechanism for sorting
> incoming mail - can fetchmail pass mail onto exim and get exim to sort
> it? Can anyone point me to an appropriate document, FAQ, whatever which
> would explain what I would have to do to set it all up?
Fetchmail can get your mail for you and deliver it to port 25 (to Exim).
That is what I do. Then use an Exim .forward file to do what you are doing
with Procmail. There is filtering documentation at http://www.exim.org and
there are also sample filters on their ftp site.
As for fetchmail, I run it as a daemon when online and I have something like:
poll pop3.myisp.net with proto POP3
user "mylogin" there with password "mypassword" is
pollywog@shadypond.com here
In my .fetchmailrc
Use fetchmailconf to assist you if needed.
--
Andrew
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