On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 4:06am ,John Rye spake passionately in a message:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > John,
> >
> > Using fetchmail and procmail are far easier than the HOWTO's present
> > them. Using fetchmail is just a matter of issuing the command to get the
> > mail from the server by a user in a terminal window. Like this:
> >
> > fetchmail mail.hostname.com <ENTER>
> >
> > If your system $USERname differs from that of your ISP username, (that
> > which appears in your email address before the "@" symbol then you would
> > invoke fetchmail like this:
> >
> > fetchmail -u username mail.hostname.com
> >
> > If you want it to run as a daemon in the background simply add "-d 150" in
> > the syntax. That will cause fetchmail to poll the mail server every 150
> > seconds. There is also a utility included with Mandrake called
> > Fetchmailconf that will allow you to setup and .fetchmailrc file on your
> > system that will poll the server as soon as a net connection is detected
> > when ever you connect to the net.
> >
> > As for procmail the only thing you have to do to use that is to setup up a
> > .procmailrc file in your home dir and you're set. It get's read every time
> > fetchmail get's the mail because fetchmail hands off the mail upon
> > receiving it to procmail who then delivers the mail to
> > /var/spool/mail/$USER. I've sent along a copy of my .procmailrc file for
> > you to look at. Please feel free to do what ever you wish with it. If you
> > want to use it or any portion of it just save it to your home dir as
> > .procmailrc and it will work. Notice though how the "recipes" are
> > constructed. That's the secret of using procmail to do your filtering. If
> > you want more documentation check the man pages for procmail and
> > procmailex.
>
> Mark,
>
> That's the best and simplest explanation of howto I've seen in ages.
> Why oh why can't there be something as concise, succinct and easy
> read at the front end of the howtos, man and info pages.
>
> Documentors?? You hear this plea???
>
> Fat, huge, big, silly grin!!
>
> Cheers
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...I've been wondering that since I started using Linux
myself about 1 1/2 ago! I'm glad I could help. Were you able to make any
use of the procmailrc-temp file?
