Re: Procmail setup question

Thanks for the reply and the endorsement. I will take it into in
consideration.

2010/11/22 Keith T. Garner <[email protected]>

> 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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