Merciadri Luca <[email protected]> writes: > Hello, > > I have Procmail and Fetchmail both installed on my computer. I have > configured an .authinfo file, to be able to read my mails using > news.sunsite.dk. However, it does not work. > > There is something that I do not understand: > 1. Do I need to use Procmail or Fetchmail to fetch my mails, using > news.sunsite.dk?
Your mails do not come from here. News (usenet) comes from here. I assume you mean things like your googlemail (or whatever you use for email) is what you want? As a suggestion I recommend not using your ISP email account since you will change isp in coming years. Get a good independent email account. I like gmail - fast, access via pop3 and imap and lots of storage. > 2. Is it really possible to use news.sunsite.dk to fetch my mails? If > so, how? No. > 3. I have configured a .procmailrc (for Procmail), but it seems to be > unuseful, as I already have an .authinfo file for Gnus; Procmail *filters* your email after fetchmail fetches it. This has nothing to do with .authinfo. > > Any help would me much appreciated. I personally use getmail. I have a script which processes all getmail rc files in a certain directory so: (~/bin/getmails) ,---- | #!/bin/bash | host=$(hostname) | mailserver="hermes.richardriley.net" | if [ $host != "hermes.richardriley.net" ] | then | echo "Doing remote call to mailserver $mailserver" | ssh $mailserver /home/shamrock/bin/getmails | exit | fi | | cmd="getmail -d -q" | | for file in ~/.getmail/*.rc; do | cmd="$cmd --rcfile $file " | done | | $cmd `---- an rc file on the remote system looks like this: here we see ~/.getmails/rileyrgdev.rc getting my pop3 emal and calling procmail ... ,---- | [retriever] | type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever | server = pop.gmail.com | username = [email protected] | port = 995 | password = ********************** | [destination] | type = MDA_external | path = /usr/bin/procmail `---- Note it telling getmail to invoke procmail. procmail then filters the mail and places it where the procmail config tells it. In this case the rule in the .procmailrc is: ,---- | :0 | * ^(To|Delivered-To):.*rileyrgdev.* | $MAILDIR/.DevelopmentEmail/ `---- (The .DevelopmentEmail is a MAILDIR for Dovecot which is an IMAP server. I then connect to my own IMAP server to collect all my email in my mail program). Its a lot to learn at the start but a valuable process! Oh, and "getmails" is run via cron on my mailserver or I can invoke it manually from my local machine where it ssh's into my mail server to run it. Have fun! > > -- > Merciadri Luca > See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ > I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail > client, please contact me. > -- _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
