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Re: spoolfile and move clarification



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On Monday, April  6 at 05:26 PM, quoth Zhengquan Zhang:
>here is a snippet of my getmailrc
>
>[destination]
>type = MDA_external
>path = /usr/bin/procmail
>
>I use getmail to fetch mail from pop server and use procmail to 
>process the mails. I 'guess' I don't have a spoolfile for getmail 
>since my spoolfile in /var/mail is always empty. I also posted the 
>question "whether I have a spoolfile in this situation" on getmail 
>mailing list.

:)

You don't have a spoolfile in this case. Your mail is being handed 
directly to the external MDA (namely, procmail).

~Kyle
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