In the old days (yes I am a dinosaur) the editors would show you the bytes in a file... now adays they lie and I've unfortunately made assumptions about what the lies are (I feel like telling someone to get off my lawn). A hex editor has lead me to belive that all this jazz concerning "mboxo" format is nothing I need to worry about in sofar as the prepending of '>' to 'From' is concerned. My first step should be to get mail "delivered" to a file. Sorry for the confusion...
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:39 PM, visaris tds.net <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/
