Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Thursday 21 February 2002 12:00 pm, Tim Wunder wrote: > >>Thanks for the response Bruce. Question below. >> >>Bruce Marshall wrote: >> >>>On Thursday 21 February 2002 11:29 am, Tim Wunder wrote: >>> >>>>I am in need of some enlightenment. What is the purpose of procmail and >>>>how does it relate to sendmail? >>>> >>>Procmail is a deliverer of mail.... It takes an email from sendmail and >>>does the final delivery of it on the local host (or what other processes >>>you might want to do with that mail such as forward it) >>> >>>In your /etc/sendmail.cf you will find (most likely) and Mlocal entry >>>that specifies procmail as the delivery agent. >>> >>OK, my sendmail.cf file appears to be using /usr/sbin/mail.local to >>deliver mail, at least that's how I understand this line: >>Mlocal, P=/usr/sbin/mail/local, F=<gobbldygook>:/<gobbldygook2>, >>SEnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP >> >>So I should change this somehow to get it to use Procmail. How? >> >>(I'll hunt for an answer on my own, but...) >> >>According to http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~ksm/SASC/WKS_Procmail/page03.html, >>I need to do this first: >>Using the sendmail 8.8 auto-configuration, procmail support can be >>easily integrated into the sendmail.cf file by adding the following to >>the sendmail macro file: >> >>FEATURE(local_procmail, `/pkg/bin/procmail') >> define(`PROCMAIL_PATH', /pkg/bin/procmail) >> MAILER(procmail)dnl >> >>Is that right? >> >>Regards, >>Tim >> > > My Mlocal statement is below... For an experiment, I would save your > current sendmail.cf and make the change to the below. The FEATURE business > above is really the correct way to do it but it involves recreating the > entire sendmail.cf using various incantations. I can come up with those if > you want. > > (I think the FEATURE statement above might need some changes for your setup) > > Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn09, > S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, > T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, > A=procmail -a $h -d $u > > Also, on the external access to port 110, are you going to be doing a lot of > access? Such as all day at work? Because another option is to install a > web based email setup such as neomail. Clean and secure but not a speed > demon. >
neomail? Is it hard to configure? I DO check my POP account regularly throughout the day, but I can live with webmail access, I just don't particularly like it (I'd REALLY like to figger out how to get secure POP working...). I'll look into neomail anyway, so my wife can check her mail from work (she doesn't have access to POP mail from her workstation, but she can check webmail). Thanks again. Hopefully, I'll get a chance to try the procmail stuff later tonight. Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
