On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 10:29pm ,Larry Marshall spake passionately in a message:
>
> > I'm not sure if that's possible.
>
> I'm not sure what in the message you don't think is possible so I
> can't comment on this.
I'm not sure if one can download the mail from one's ISP's mail server to
a dir on their system and then pickup that mail using Netscape Messenger
for reading. I've wondered about this and I can't see why it couldn't be
done, however, I have a feeling that making it happen would be a
nightmare.
>
> > Although I have been wondering about that
> > myself. Fetchmail gets the mail from the ISP and passes passes the mail
> > off to procmail who then filters the messages and deposits them to their
> > prescribed destination. Those that are destined for my "Inbox" get
> > deposited in /var/spool/mail/$USER. Other messages that are defined in
> > .procmailrc are place in their respective folders in $HOME/mail where Pine
> > reads them.
>
> Here, however, I think you're presuming too much.
Ooooooo...I don't know about that. I was just expounding about how the
mail is handled on my system. I have no idea how you have yours setup to
happen. And there are a mirad of ways to skin this cat indeed. I just hope
that when it skinned it's big enough to BBQ over an open fire. :)
> There are many ways
> to skin this cat and procmail is only one of them. I don't even have
> procmail setup and yet filter inbound mail heavily. This could be
> part of my problem when using Pine (as you've suggested) but it will
> filter/distribute mail to a number of folders without even a hint of
> .procmailrc in my home directory. Netscape doesn't even deal with
> standard mailrouting and everything gets dumped into ~/nsmail which
> holds the folders.
>
This is really odd behavior for Pine. I've never seen it duplicate
messages like this before. At least it hasn't happened at all for me yet.
> The problem I've seen with Pine has something to do with Pine's
> operation, not inbound mail in my view. I suspect that it has to do
> with how the eXpunge command purges its buffer. If I don't leave Pine
> loaded all the time I don't have the problem. If I do, I can delete
> msgs and all of a sudden I can have as many as 3 copies of the same
> bunch of msgs back in the mail folders. Since my normal operation is
> to D all msgs as I read them (except for those I want to keep which
> are filed into other folders) followed with an X before leaving the
> folder, these complete replica sets of the msgs I'd read a couple
> hours previously (and they're in the same order as they were when I
> read them) is easy to see.
>
--
Mark
