Re: exim4
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 09:36:53PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * tom <bokchito@xxxxxxxxxx> [061121 21:16]:
> > I am using debian sarge, gkrellm,fetchmail, exim4 and mutt.
> >
> > Fetchmail is getting the mail from my ISP and it is being put into
> > /var/spool/exim4/input.
> >
> > How do I get the mail into /var/mail/tom so that I can read it with mutt ?
> >
> > The file tom does exist in /var/mail and spoolfile is set to
> > /var/mail/tom in .muttrc
>
> On a typical desktop system, exim serves to hand of outgoing messages
> to the smarthost of your ISP, and to deliver internal messages. But
> for incoming mail from your ISP, it is not necessary (nor is it
> normal) for exim to be involved.
>
> Let fetchmail (or better, getmail) deliver mail to your incoming mail
What is wrong with fetchmail? Why is getmail better?
> spool "/var/mail/tom". But it is very common for the typical
> single-user desktop machine to put the mail spool in the home
> directory of the user, for example, "~/Mail" if you are using the
> mailbox structure, or "~/mail" if you are using the maildir structure.
^^^^^^^
do you mean mbox? Whether its "~/Mail", "~/mail", or even "~/var/mail"
makes no difference whether you are using maildir or mbox.
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