On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 03:58:20PM -0500, Pocket wrote:
> Will this work?
>
> symlink /var/mail/paulf to /home/paulf/Mail/in
>
> ln -vs /home/paulf/Mail/in /var/mail/paulf
I wouldn't expect it to work. Most programs that try to deliver to
an mbox file like /var/mail/username will try to
On 11/18/23 07:44, Paul M Foster wrote:
Folks:
After using claws-mail for a number of years, I'm testing the idea of going
back to mutt and fetchmail. One problem I've encountered is how to get
local mail in /var/mail/paulf into mutt's inbox at /home/paulf/Mail/in.
I could run a POP server,
Paul M Foster wrote:
> Also worth noting that I have exim installed, which handles the cron job
> emails, and puts them, by default into the standard location,
> /var/mail/paulf.
Missed this. You can either have exim hand off to maildrop, or
deliver where you want via a .forward file in your
Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 09:29:02AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> > Paul M Foster wrote:
> > > After using claws-mail for a number of years, I'm testing the idea of
> > > going
> > > back to mutt and fetchmail. One problem I've encountered is how to get
> > > local mail in
Am Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 10:15:42AM -0500 schrieb Paul M Foster:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 09:29:02AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> > Paul M Foster wrote:
> > > After using claws-mail for a number of years, I'm testing the idea of
> > > going
> > > back to mutt and fetchmail. One problem I've
On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 10:15:42AM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote:
> This would be okay if all my mail was delivered to that spool file, but it
> isn't. Fetchmail hands off (internet) mail to maildrop, which puts in my
> spool file at /home/paulf/Mail/in. That's where mutt thinks my spool file
> is.
On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 09:29:02AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
> > After using claws-mail for a number of years, I'm testing the idea of going
> > back to mutt and fetchmail. One problem I've encountered is how to get
> > local mail in /var/mail/paulf into mutt's inbox at
Paul M Foster wrote:
> After using claws-mail for a number of years, I'm testing the idea of going
> back to mutt and fetchmail. One problem I've encountered is how to get
> local mail in /var/mail/paulf into mutt's inbox at /home/paulf/Mail/in.
>
> I could run a POP server, and have fetchmail
Folks:
After using claws-mail for a number of years, I'm testing the idea of going
back to mutt and fetchmail. One problem I've encountered is how to get
local mail in /var/mail/paulf into mutt's inbox at /home/paulf/Mail/in.
I could run a POP server, and have fetchmail query it like any other
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