Hi,
I'd a discussion - offlist - with one of my friends regarding
fetchmail+procmail, and we'd a slight disagreement; I feel I'm
right, but he being more experienced than me on Linux, got to
give him the benefit of doubt. Can the experts clarify? I
checked the fetchmail, procmail man page, but couldn't solve it.
I'll quote:
<snip>
Me> I initially started using fetchmail for downloading mail,
Me> which were re-sent to local mail-boxes using exim. Then I
Me> found that it was taking too much time, and so I started
Me> using fetchmail+procmail to redirect the mail to local boxes,
Me> and indeed its faster now.
My Friend> fetchmail, procmail, exim should run parellely.
....
Me> I'm not running exim as daemon; its being invoked from mutt
Me> whenever I send a mail. I usually give a 'exim -qff'
Me> after connecting to the net; followed by a 'fetchmail -v'.
My Friend> fetchmail needs exim running in the background. that
My Friend> is why your mails are vanishing. run exim as a daemon.
</snip>
I'm using Potato, on dial-up. A clip of my .fetchmailrc
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set postmaster "postmaster"
set bouncemail
set properties ""
poll 61.1.224.33 with proto POP3
user 'trc_lfc' there with password '***' mda 'formail -s procmail'
-------------
Does fetchmail/procmail use exim while downloading/processing
mail in the above scenario?
Cordially
Ajay Shankar
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