RE: Newbie configuration - getting email (POP3)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mutt-users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-mutt-users@xxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Bruno Postle
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 3:47 PM
> To: Mutt users
> Subject: Re: Newbie configuration - getting email (POP3)
>
>
> On Tue 14-Oct-2003 at 02:20:50PM -0400, David Fishburn wrote:
>
> > So I setup fetchmail:
>
> > This is where I run into problems.
> > This puts my email into /var/spool/mail/fishburn.
> > How do I get fetchmail to put my email into the same account as what
> > Mutt is expecting above ~/Mail/Inbox.
> >
> > Further reading indicates I need to use procmail to do this.
>
> You would normally use procmail to do this, but if you are happy for
> now reading all your mail in a single spoolfile, you can just tell
> mutt to use the existing system mailspool rather than create one in
> your home directory.
>
> The path to your system mailspool will be available via the $MAIL
> environmental variable, so you can put this in your .muttrc:
>
> set spoolfile = $MAIL
> mailboxes $MAIL
>
> This is equivalent to:
>
> set spoolfile = /var/spool/mail/fishburn
> mailboxes /var/spool/mail/fishburn
>
> --
> Bruno
>
Yes, this might be simpliest, but I have a feeling I will probably need
to start SPAM filtering.
I am assuming this is pretty easy to do with procmail.
How can you redirect the emails from $MAIL to ~/Mail/Inbox?
Dave