fetchmail, procmail, mutt

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Wed Apr 21 00:05:21 MST 2010


On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, wta wrote:

> 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"

I tried that about a week ago when I was attempting to use an 
alternate .procmailrc file and it was a disaster. I don't have the error 
message handy as it's on my laptop which is at Red7 for repair.

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

The reference in the above site to CORRECTHOME confuses me. Running a 
search on it turns up nothing that tells me *how it works.

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