Hi folks
I've been messing around with fetchmail / mutt / procmail. I use
fetchmail / IMAP to download mail from sundry folders on a hosted
server, leaving a copy of everything.
I use identical procmail rcfiles on my home machine and the remote
machine.
I use a script to extract mailfolder names from the .procmailrc and put
them where fetchmail and mutt can use them.
I receive approx. 300 emails a day, I think. I only read about 100 of
them _daily_, and save the rest up in archives.
This is the script I use:
#!/bin/bash
grep ^[A-Za-z] ~/.procmailrc | grep -v = | grep -v ackup | sort | uniq >
~/tmp/mailboxes
cat ~/tmp/mailboxes | sed "s/^/mailboxes =/" > ~/.mailboxes
cat ~/tmp/mailboxes | sed "s/^/echo folder Mail\//" > ~/.fetchmailfolders
chmod 755 ~/.fetchmailfolders
cat ~/.fetchmailhead > ~/.fetchmailrc
~/.fetchmailfolders | cat >> ~/.fetchmailrc
Ugly, isn't it?
I do this because procmail saves mail to folders called
Mail/listname'date +%Y%m', which mutt understands and fetchmail
doesn't.
What should I be doing instead? Should I learn how to use IMAP
properly?
Thanks...
Ailbhe
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