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Re: ISP -> recent problem

1997-09-26 06:45:20
Iztok Polanic <iztok(_dot_)polanic1(_at_)guest(_dot_)arnes(_dot_)si> writes:
I have said that i have a problem with my procmail, becasue he doesn't
sort my mails in Folders from my ISP (i use fetchmail).
...

(I didn't know procmail was male (and yes, there are dozen really bad puns
possible from here, but THEY'RE NOT RELEVANT TO THE LIST!))

As procmail is designed to be called at mail delivery time, calling it
later requires some work.  This wouldn't be a problem if your mail
system was setup correctly.  Two things you should check are:

a)      Fetchmail should be handing off the mail it fetches to sendmail
        or whatever MTA you use.  If it just puts the mail in your
        mailbox then you need to get a newer version of fetchmail.

b)      sendmail should be configured to use procmail as the local
        mailer.  If you have sendmail V8 then you can just use the m4
        config file generators scripts to do this by including the
        local_procmail FEATURE().


Philip Guenther