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Re: Client "daemon" for sorting e-mail via IMAP



On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:10:07AM -0800, David Guntner wrote:
> My regular user account runs fetchmail via cron every so often, which
> goes out via secure (encrypted) IMAP connections to my various mailboxes
> scattered across the Internet. :-)  That, in turn, feeds the mail to
> Postfix for handling, which then passes it off to Procmail for delivery.

Why hand it off to Postfix, where instead you could just use fetchmail
with "-m" option, e.g:

fetchmail -e 50 -m /usr/bin/procmail

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who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X


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