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Re: spoolfile and move clarification



On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:42:30PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> 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).
Thanks, Kyle, I have got postfix running on another machine and whenever I
send email to that machine it will be stored in /var/mail. I guess that
is why I thought it should have a spoolfile;)
> 
> ~Kyle
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Zhengquan