Re: Procmail setup question

To be pedantic... Fetchmail by default uses the local MTA[1] to deliver the mail, and then your MTA's MDA[2] would call procmail.  However, in the past, I configured fetchmail to pipe directly to procmail rather than use the MTA/MDA for delivery.  At the time, that wasn't a recommended configuration for fetchmail, but it worked.

Also, for procmail to determine if the attachments are of the right type, you might need to write a helper script.

Keith

PS I use procmail every day and love it with my entire body.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_transfer_agent
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_delivery_agent

On Nov 22, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Richard Reina wrote:

> Hi Scott,
> 
> Thanks very much for the replies.  I will look into fetchmail.  Would it be accurate to say that once fetchmail gets the emails into a directory on the local machine that procmail would filter them?
> 
> 2010/11/22 W. Scott Lockwood III <[email protected]>
> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 11:59 -0600, Richard Reina wrote:
> > My ISP (xo commications) does not use procmail and will not allow me
> > to install anything on there servers.  I really hate to use windows.
> > As for email clients we either use firefox or just check our email
> > directly on XO's server.  THe machine (a laptop) will likely not get
> > messed with and will require a password anyway and the attachments
> > that are accepted will be copied to other machines in the office. It
> > should be fairly reliable.
> 
> Ok. That still doesn't answer the question - what mail server is XO
> using? I hate Windows, too - but Wine / Crossover Office work really
> well here. I use that to get into Outlook for the things that I have to
> do.
> 
> Also, how are you connecting to / retrieving your mail?
> 
> Assuming that XO is NOT using Exchange, I'd say procmail is the way to
> go. You could also use fetchmail to force it to check for mail on the
> remote end periodically, and I think fetchmail uses some basic rules for
> filtering as well. You'd need some way to get the mail TO your machine
> in order to have procmail work on it, of course, which is why I suggest
> fetchmail.
> 
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