Excerpts from mail: (30-Aug-97) procmail on distributed mail systems. by M V
Gurudev Dutt
I log in to a set of NFS-ed servers (or more precisely AFS-ed), and my
mail comes into another server (not a part of this set) which is running
IMAP. So sendmail never delivers mail into /var/mail/$LOGNAME on my login
machines, and instead delivers to the IMAP server. Since sendmail never
reads my .forward file in the home directory, I figure procmail never gets
invoked.
Any ideas for a workaround on this problem?
You need a program which will fetch your e-mail from the IMAP server and then
feed it to procmail. One such program that can do this is fetchmail. Check
out <http://locke.ccil.org/~esr/fetchmail/>. The bad news is that once you do
this, you probably won't be able to use an IMAP client to read your e-mail
anymore. But that might be good news if you prefer an MUA that reads mbox
files but doesn't grok IMAP.
Later,
Ed