Re: using exim for simple mail delivery
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:01:46 +0200 Robert.Land@t-online.de (Robert Wilhelm
Land) wrote:
> Does exim allow the config. of simple mail delivery
> on the following system?:
>
> -One mashine, connected tmp. to the internet
> -one user with only one email adress and
> who likes to have his incoming mail sorted as:
> +one inbox for each subscribed maillist
> +one inbox for all the other mail
Fetchmail along with procmail or maildrop should be able to do this for
you easily, and without the need for exim to get involved.
> Unfortunately I can't figure out if mutt is able
> to handle multiple inboxs on only one
> email account.
Yep, I do it all the time. I sync my IMAP account locally to my laptop in
Maildir format. Mutt handles it without a hiccup.
> The mutt help only seems to discribe
> the marking of maillist mail with the help of the 'lists'
> definitions in ~/muttrc.
>From "man muttrc":
mailboxes filename [ filename ... ]
This command specifies folders which can receive mail and which
will be checked for new messages. When changing folders, press-
ing space will cycle through folders with new mail.
> People might advise me to have a look at procmail but
> I thought of starting with a simple mail system
> avoiding any additional programs which might
> cause me to feel a bit helpless reading all those
> man pages.
I would think using the right tool for the job would ease the confusion.
As I understand your situation you want to do the following:
- retrieve your e-mail from a remote mail server (possibly provided by
ISP)
- sort the retrieved mail into individual folders (based on some content)
- read the sorted e-mail at some point in time.
The tools for this are:
- fetchmail (retrieve the mail)
- procmail or maildrop (sort the mail based on content)
- mutt (read messages)
You will most likely need a basic exim configuration for sending messages,
as Mutt relies on a local MTA to pass the message off to. The eximconfig
script will help you with that. If you plan on using an ISP's mail
server, you'll probably want option 2 or 3, IIRC.
--
Jamin W. Collins
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