On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:00:16PM -0500, thus spake Gary: > > Now I am having a problem with this mail business as I have 3 ISPs. > So, I figured to make life easier, to use Fetchmail, Procmail, > Sendmail, along with latest Mutt which of course is a mail agent, so > must be used with Fet, Proc, and Send programs. This was installed > with no problem. I read the man pages until 4:00 a.m. used Fetchmail > config and set it up the way I wanted it for the ISPs. .. Turned it on > (Deamon polling every 15 minutes), and boy can I hear the email coming > in to my machine. Bravo! No mean feat, this. > OKAY - now what do I do? Yes, this is funny. Where is the email? > Where did it go in my machine. This is where I am stuck. It is Probably in /var/spool/mail. The place to check is /var/log/maillog - should tell you where the post ends up > spooled somewhere, but where, and how do I get it? I don't understand > where it comes in, when to start Procmail, etc. Well, on the same system I invoke procmail straight from .fetchmailrc - suppposedly less satisfactory than letting sendmail and procmail set up a relationship - but have you SEEN sendmail.cf?!? >I can start Fetchmail > and have it run in the background easily enough after booting. How do > I get the Mutt setup to find the mail file to work on, etc. I am > totally lost. There really is no reference material on this in the > Mandrake User Guide and Reference Manual. Indeed! Mutt and Procmail have good home pages and there is an excellent Mutt reference manual and some good procmail tutorials. But what I always find most helpful is a really well annotated configuration file. The page that helped me most is http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/~hobbit/cave.html where Telsa has useful .muttrc and .procmailrc files nicely annotated > Can somebody help me figure this out. If you want to compare notes (I'm no expert) mail me direct HTH Glyn -- ****************************************************** * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * * Douglas Hoftstatder * ******************************************************
