At 18:20 2001-01-18 +0000, Richard wrote:
and several other useful pages but I can't find anything that involves
moving mail from one machine to another. My problem is compounded by
the fact that I have not used procmail before and so a basic rule set
isn't something that I can understand.
Uhm, if the ONLY thing you're doing on the other "gateway" system is
forwarding the mail, then in your user home directory, create a .forward
file and put your "workstation" email address in it (that's all), perms of
644 or the like.
If you don't have an addressable email host on hour home network (which
sort of requires a static IP, and an SMTP server), then you're going to run
into problems _forwarding_ messages to it - whether by a simple .forward or
via procmail. In that case, running FETCHMAIL (not part of the procmail
program set) on your home machine (presuming it is a *nix box) to retrieve
messages from your ISP mailbox is what you want to do. You'll need to look
around for info on fetchmail - that's a separate program entirely.
Don't forget that you can search the list archives via the link provided at
<http://www.procmail.org>.
Can anyone provide an example configuration that I can work from so
that I can process incoming mail and read it on my workstation ?
More information about your workstation is really necessary - as indicated
above, it may not be possible to simply forward messages to it. What OS
platform is it running, for instance (for all we know, your "workstation"
is a windows box)?
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