Re: local sendmail
* Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx> [02-05-09 09:08]:
>
> No, you do not *need* postfix, but your MDA *must* deliver to procmail
> in some manner. You may process the mail with procmail:
> formail -ds procmail -m <recipe.file> <mail.file>
> formail -ds procmail <mail.file>
>
> The crux is that the MDA *must* deliver to procmail.
>
On further thought, or whatever that process should be called, the
above is not entirely true. It is quite possible to accept the mail
whereever your MDA places it, I assume it is consistent and in one
place, and run a cron job to have that place/file processed via
procmail and delivered to *different* location/file. Then just don't
access the location that the MDA delivers with your email client.
I believe there exists a utility similar to cron that works on the
existance of a defined file that you could use instead of cron to
achieve the above, but I cannot recall the name of that utility,
perhaps "incron".
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