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Re: Procmail doesn't react to incoming mail (fwd)

1996-12-17 02:20:33

On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Tony Nugent wrote:


On Fri Dec 13 1996, I wrote:

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

When you fetch mail from your ISP with "popclient", procmail doesn't get
involved at all.  It can't.  Your ISP's mailer system is receiving the
mail, via SMTP, and probably with Sendmail, but even that isn't a sure
thing.

[...stuff about pop'ed email not locally delivering via SMTP...]

The solution is to use `fetchmail', which *can* be configured to
deliver pop'ed email locally via smtp (or even deliver it to another
host with smtp).


I wanted to try fetchmail but I'm not sure that what I downloaded was the
real thing. It's a perl script and when I attempt to run it, it spits out
errors about the syntax every 2 to 5 lines of script. I need a good
location to ftp the real mccoy from. Popclient seems to be a bit buggy and
I'm not happy with the way it handles things. I'm having other problems
with procmail but I would rather get a reliable retrieval system going
first before I worry too much with filtering.


[Disclaimer: I've never used either program... I'm just going by what
I've seen in other mailing lists and usenet.]

[...lsm about fetchmail-2.2...]

I retract this disclaimer and can now say categorically that fetchmail
does indeed deliver email locally via smtp.  It works just GREAT!


Good! I will be intouch for help _if_ you don't mind and if I need help.
Or better yet, is there a mailing list for fetchmail?


 [  snip...  ]


At one time (around a year ago) I tried using `popclient', but did not
use it as the message headers (the `From ' line in particular) would
get totally mangled with the name of my local host substituted from
what was in there originally!  It did not deliver locally via smtp but
directly into a local file, my $MAIL file by default (unless I missed
something fundamental in the docs for it).  Absolutely no good at all
for my purposes.


It's doing a little number on the From lines with me too. I always have an
empty message at the top of the list that is caused by the way popclient
handles them.


After reading the man page that Tony was kind enough to post I can see
that fetchmail is what I need. So all I need is to know where I can get
it. 




Ray

ps; Thanks to those who responded earlier with help on getting started
with procmail. I got exactly what I needed from your posts.



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