Re: fetchmailrc - polling local mail
On 09/30/07 20:25, Breen Mullins wrote:
> * Joseph <syscon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2007-09-30 21:07 -0600]:
>
>>
>> What I'm straggling with is what to put in .fetchmailrc to get the mail
>> out (the is no password)
>
> fetchmail is used to receive mail, not to send it. You can put a
> password into .fetchmailrc or into .netrc.
>
> It sounds like you may be confusing different functions. Can you explain
> exactly what you're trying to do?
>
> --
> Breen Mullins
> Menlo Park, California
On my system all local mail: from root, warnings from UPS, hylafax are being
forwarded to me: joseph
so I have a mail box in /var/mail/joseph
In evolution all I had to do is to configure it to pull mail as: "local
delivery" and magically all these emails
were being forwarded to me.
But there is no such magic in mutt :-/ I need to figure it out how to do it on
manually; to pull mail from:
/var/mail/joseph (it is an mbox) to ~/.maildir (my local folder) procmail will
take care of the sorting to deliver
it my "inbox" but I think I need to instruct the fetchmail to get that mail.
I'm familiar with:
formail -s procmail < /var/mail/joseph
Which I could (I think) put in .procmailrc and it could pull my email IN but it
will not empty my mbox
/var/mail/joseph
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#Joseph