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Re: Procmail doesn't react to incoming mail

1996-12-12 14:32:49


On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Alan K. Stebbens wrote:

When you fetch mail from your ISP with "popclient", procmail doesn't get
involved at all.  It can't.  

It can:

popclient -3 -u username -p password -c pop.host.com | formail -ds procmail

or (safer)

popclient -3 -u username -p password -o $MAIL/popmail pop.host.com
formail -ds procmail < $MAIL/popmail 
#rm $MAIL/popmail


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