Thank you. Opera is a client but it doesn't understand the system of
mboxes or maildirs that Pine uses - at least not as far as I've been able
to discover. It can talk to IMAP or POP servers but doesn't seem to have a
place for procmail to dump the mail to. With Pine I can tell it to use
the local mail folders where mail is dumped after it's fetched and
processed by procmail.
I've liked the fetchmail->procmail setup as I can have procmail process
the mail in many ways and even though Opera can do much of that I'ld like
to keep this process.
Thanks.
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Jean Magnan
de Bornier wrote:
Le 09 octobre à 20:49:12 "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment:
| I have been running fetchmail->procmail->pine but would like to use
| Opera. However, Opera doesn't appear to be able to understand the system
| of mailboxes for Pine.
Is not pine a mail client, just as opera(mail)? In which case what would
pine's system of mailboxes be?
| How can I use Opera with fetchmail, procmail and pine or do I need to
| move to something else - like postfix. If so what is recommeded and how
| is it setup? Do I still use fetchmail and procmail with something like
| postfix?
I think you can use any combination of those, but opera can retrieve your
mail (the basic function of fetchmail), split it into separate folders
(the basic function of procmail), and send your mail through a remote smtp
server (postfix would do it also, with more complicated things).
It all depends of what you expect from your mail system; if you manage one
or two personal accounts, opera alone will do fine, but you can also keep
your fetchmail and procmail with their own settings.
If what you aim at is using alternatively pine or opera (or gnus, or mutt,
or thunderbird, etc...), then you need to use an imap-based system, which
can be done with postfix, or by taking advantage of imap capacities of
your remote servers (if they provide it)
hth,
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