Re: Mutt&Procmail recipes ...
While this is off-topic, procmail is a MUST for some people who have no
control over a poorly (or worse, not at all) administered network. There
were two topics which I have bumped into, so I add my $0.02 in case it
may help to get some answers. Also I reply to the no MTA query.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 09:46:34PM +1300, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> > Maybe. It seems to me more likely that you changed your .forward ...
I have procmail installed in my private account area on four different
machines. On three of them, procmail works like a charm, but on one of
them procmail is never invoked. This is despite having a .forward file.
My SUSPICION is that the mail server is not configured to deliver mail,
but just to keep it on the spool. About all I know is that by default,
these accounts have a ".popbull" file in them with the content of one,
literal "0". I can read, delete, save to my own account, etc., the
contents of my default mailbox (/var/mail/$LOGNAME) with Mutt, but I can't
get pre-processing with procmail. Anyone know how I might try to get that
_forward file to be read by the server's mail delivery system?
> I'll keep trying to subscribe to procmail-users at Aachen, hopefully
> it's just a periodic bandwidth problem.
_Probably_ your mail is not even getting delivered to the procmail-users
list server. In order for mail to be delivered to that list, the domain
in your e-mail address MUST resolve to something in a reverse lookup, i.e.,
the SMTP server where the procmail lists are hosted is configured to reject
mail from domain names that don't resolve by DNS. If you have control over
your DNS configuration, or can get your upstream provider to fix it for you,
then you can can get on the procmail-users list after correcting the reverse
lookup problem. If you have no control over upstream servers, and they will
not cooperate with you, then you cannot join procmail-users with that address.
Try creating a web-mail account just for the procmail list if you really want
on.
> The fact I'm unable to mail out via Mutt suggests a need to
> config exim2 - can you suggest a good reference ?
I found "ssmtp" the easiest to get compiled on Solaris 2.6 and 2.8. It can be
found at: "ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/mta/ssmtp-2.48.tar.gz.";
"esmtp" was recommended to me, but it relies on another library "libesmtp"
(which wasn't a problem), and requires a working (according to its criterion)
threads library which I could never get set up, so I had to give up. I
opened up "exim", but it was MUCH more than what I needed.
HTH
henry nelson