Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > > Hi Richard, > first thank you for aswering me with great patiente. :) > Richard Harran wrote: <snip>
I don't use mutt, or smail to send mail, so I'm cc this reply to the list, as we're reaching the limit of my knowledge! > First. I installed smail with Debian 2.0. I dont install exim. Yet. I > tried your .fetchmailrc and then typed > fetchmail. Worked!! I started mutt and voila the mail was here. Yes: smail provides similar services to exim. I'm not exactly sure of all the differences, but from what I've seen of emails to this list, people seem to prefer exim. <snip> > But, I didnt could send mail. :( What I have to do? This is again a job for smail(/exim). I think when you send a message in mutt, it should start up smail to do the actual work. I can't really tell you what to do here, sorry. > Another question. I grep ppp/ip-up.d and saw the line: > > phantasy:/etc/ppp/ip-up.d# more fetchmail-up > #!/bin/bash > > test -r /etc/fetchmailrc && \ > fetchmail --syslog --invisible --fetchmailrc /etc/fetchmailrc > > phantasy:/etc/ppp/ip-up.d# > > But this is the global configuration (/etc). How do I start fetchmail as > user every time I connect? Have you understanded the question? I'm not sure, but I guess you could replace /etc/fetchmailrc with $HOME/.fetchmailrc, but this would cause problems if ip-up is run before login. You should also check there isn't anything important in the /etc file that isn't in the ~/ file. Again, sorry but I'm uncertain about this stuff: my setup is a bit different, 'cos I'm permanently connected. > > > > > You can get it to deliver to different folders, and even sort your mail > > by editing a .forward file in your home directory, eg. > > > > if $header_resent-from: contains "debian-user" > > then > > save $home/mail/debian > > else > > save $home/mail/inbox > > > > Then you need to set up your reader to point to the mail directory in <snip> > > I have read of procmail too. Is it good? I think procmail does pretty much the same function as that of exim described above. You need a ~/.procmailrc file, with (differently formatted rules in it. As to the advantages and disadvantages over ~.forward and exim, I don't know. I've put the example .procmailrc from the procmail manpage below, to give you an idea. I think it puts most of your mail in ~/Mail/mbox, saves anything with a name ending in berg in the From: field to ~/Mail/from_me, and bins anything with a Subject: line ending in Flame. sample small $HOME/.procmailrc: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox #completely optional LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommended :0: * ^From.*berg from_me :0 * ^Subject:.*Flame /dev/null > Thank again for your atention. I'm a coordinator of LUG here at Brazil > (Rio de Janeiro). I'm introducing Linux everywhere. > Especially Debian (that is very good). I have to know basic things to teach > others. > Paulo Henrique Sorry I couldn't be more helpful this time. Hopefully someone on the list will be able to clarify this. Rich. <snip original query>