On Friday 04 November 2005 03:03 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Friday 04 Nov 2005 07:56, Keith wrote: > > How do I call procmail when I use fetchmail to download mail? > > If there is no mail server listening on port 25 fetchmail will > automatically call procmail if there is a file called .procmailrc in the > users /home see 'man fetchmail' and 'man procmailrc' > > If you do have a Postfix mail server, the default Postfix configuration > will call procmail when the mail server has finished handling the mail. > > derek Not sure if its necessary, but I run mine like this, fetchmail -m procmail:
-m <command> | --mda <command> (Keyword: mda) You can force mail to be passed to an MDA directly (rather than forwarded to port 25) with the --mda or -m option. To avoid losing mail, use this option only with MDAs like procmail or sendmail that return a nonzero status on disk-full and other -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 06:05:59 up 28 days, 10:28, 1 user, load average: 0.43, 0.56, 0.45 Mandriva Linux 10.1 Official, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The wimp who made it through the eliminations on luck alone will suddenly turn into Bruce Lee when you're up against him -- Murphy's Laws of Martial Arts n°1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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