Hi Reg, Better put your flame-retardant suit on, OE doesn't truncate its lines nicely and you'll probably get some complaints! :)
And, I'm not an expert, so I make no claims on the usefulness of the following response: On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:47:52 -0400 rh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fetchmail / Procmail is working. But where exactly does fetchmail put your email > before it passes it to procmail? Fetchmail spools the email directly to your MDA. So, it opens the SMTP port on your server and feeds it directly the email you've fetched. More or less. It doesn't delete the email from the server it's fetching from until it gets an a-ok from the SMTP side. See the Fetchmail FAQ: http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html > > And if I am losing emails due to a bad procmailrc, how would I know it? > Procmail in its default Gentoo config replaces /usr/bin/mail and associated files and acts as your MDA. If it can't deliver mail messages, I believe they remain in your incoming mail queue (/var/spool/mail). Check out the procmail docs in /usr/doc/procmail-?????? (depending on which version you have installed). > My emails are sitting in my ~/.maildir (after being fetchmail'ed and procmail'ed), > and I can read them using any text editor. Is this normal? Does Courier-IMAP now > just read the emails from this directory? And I am assuming that when I try to > access my email from my work computer, the emails stay on my home computer and are > not downloaded to my work computer, correct? As someone else has mentioned, yes, this is normal. That's what .maildirs are all about. Your IMAP server just reads these files and, yes, they stay put (ie they are not sent and then removed from your machine). HTH, Anthony. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
