On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 20:47, rh wrote: > As per http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56633, I have followed > the instructions but am having a few problems. Although this guide is > great at telling you what to do to get your email system working, like > most of HOWTO's, magazine, books, etc concerning Linux, they don't > tell you why you are doing something. At the risk of looking stupid, I > have a couple of questions: > > Fetchmail / Procmail is working. But where exactly does fetchmail put > your email before it passes it to procmail?
Haven't read the guide, but from what I recall of estting up fetchmail, it's either dumped directly into procmail or into your MTA. I also recall fetchmail as having an informative (ie good, useful) website, it's probably the best place to learn more. > > And if I am losing emails due to a bad procmailrc, how would I know > it? > procmail logging on with LOGFILE=/some/place/I/have/perms/to/write/to/procmail.log VERBOSE=yes LOGABSTRACT=all where 'I' = mail user for global procmail or $user for ~/.procmailrc > My emails are sitting in my ~/.maildir (after being fetchmail'ed and > procmail'ed), and I can read them using any text editor. Is this > normal? Does Courier-IMAP now just read the emails from this > directory? And I am assuming that when I try to access my email from > my work computer, the emails stay on my home computer and are not > downloaded to my work computer, correct? That's how maildir works, if you were using mbox they'd be stuck end-to-end in one big file Can't comment on courier imap, it doesn't like some of the stuff my mail system does so I don't use it > > Thx. > > R. > > -- Yorkshire Dave top-posters will be ignored -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
