Re: Mail - reasons for trying the fetchmail/procmail/mutt route
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:28:36AM +0100, Stephen Rueger wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:41:01PM -0600, John Patton wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:08:34PM -0400, cmasters wrote:
>
> > I don't know what getmail does, but fetchmail will gather your mail
> > from your ISP and will send it straight to exim (or sendmail, etc) for
> > processing. By default, exim will use procmail to sort your mail if
> > you have a procmail recipe in your home directory (~/.fetchmailrc).
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I think that should be ~/.procmailrc
>
Oops ... yep, I realized that after typing. It is named '.procmailrc'. On
that note, I have also seen in two separate references that procmail looks
for ~either~ a '.procmailrc' or '.procmail' file.
Comments?
> greets,
>
> Stephen Rüger
Thanks,
C. Masters
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