I use gentoo. I emerged exim and fetchmail. Fetchmail evidently gets mail to my satisfaction, and hands it off to exim. I say this, because /var/spool/exim/input is stuffed full of messages, courtesy of exim.
I once read email with emacs (M-x rmail), but that nolonger works. The reason I suppose is that emacs needs mail in mbox format, and although mail is sitting in /var/spool/exim/input, nevertheless it has not been "delivered" to the proper place in an acceptable format. I don't know what the proper place is, but One Step At A Time. First, I'ld like to get mail "delivered" to some file (I don't care which) in mbox format. I have stumbled across information that mbox is *not* an unambiguous format, and what I ought to perfer is "mboxo". In case it is not part of what exim does, I'ld settle for having mail "delivered" to a file as a first step, in some format that is not maildir -- emacs chokes on maildir, or so I've heard. If that is not part of what exim does, then I'ld like to get mail "delivered" to some file, any file. I don't know what "delivered" means, but have been given to understand that it is something I need, and mail sitting in /var/spool/exim/input is somehow not good enough. I suppose getting mail "delivered" needs configuration properly setup. How? Next, some executable needs to be invoked. How? Advice such as found In Chapter 3, section 13. "Delivery in detail" is not sufficiently explicit. I need help at a much lower level like for instance: "the following lines go in the following configuration file" or "make the following a cron job". Thanks. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
