fetchmail, procmail, mutt

[wta]

Hi Matthew

your file looks ok, so far, you need to check your fechmail config, because
if is working, but it is not calling procmail. you need something like

mda "/usr/bin/procmail -m /directory/to/procmail.conf"

check here for reference
http://www.ioncannon.net/system-administration/97/using-fetchmail-and-procmail-for-maildir-style-storage-from-a-pop3-account/

walter tocalini
xtremetechs,net


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Matthew Coulliette <matthewlug at cox.net>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to setup fetchmail to get my email from the server, procmail to
> sort my email, and mutt to read my email. So far, fetchmail appears to work.
> It gets the mail and puts it in /var/mail/username. I believe that the next
> step is to have procmail sort it into mailboxes. I have created a .mail dir
> in my home dir. I attached a copy of the .procmailrc file that I have
> written. It does not appear to work. Can someone tell me what is wrong with
> the config file. Any other comments or suggestions are also welcome.
>
> MatthewMPP
>
> #procmailrc file by MatthewMPP, 04-18-10
> #routes incoming mail to appropriate mail boxes
>
> #ASSIGNMENTS
> PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin #this is where it looks for programs.
> #MAILDIR=/var/mail/matthewmpp #this is where fetchmail put my email.
> MAILDIR=/home/matthewmpp/.mail
> #DEFAULT=/home/matthewmpp/.mail/all
> LOGFILE=/home/matthewmpp/.procmail.log #this is where it should put the
> log.
> SHELL=/bin/sh #this is the shell
> VERBOSE=yes
>
> #RECIPES
> #Put mail into mailboxes
> :0
> * ^To:.*matthewmpp at cox.net
> all
>
>
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