In reply to skinky's words, written Sat, 3 Nov 2001 01:53:44 +1300 >I went round in circles trying to get fetchmail and procmail to deliver my >mail to the appropriate accounts (different users). Got sick of coming up >with error messages - generally a permissions thing not being able to >write to another user's file. Anyway I ended up using getmail as someone >? else has (above). getmail is much easier to setup for different users >and you can get the desired result running it as user, not root.
Yup. That is why I like getmail so much too. I just pulled 2.1.6 which has a few minor bugfixes. (I am someone?else ;) >Everything you need to know about getmail can be found at >http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-2.0/docs.html where you'll >also find a straightforward example getmailrc file. I sent a mail to Charles about how I set up procmail to work with the mboxes. It's so simple when you find it: pull mail into an mbox (e.g. $HOME/newmail/newmails Then use formail to shove the mails to procmail one by one: formail < $HOME/newmail/newmails -s procmail -m $HOME/.procmailrc After that step (and making sure things worked first!!) you can delete the 'newmails' file and 'touch' a clean one (at least the older version of getmail would collapse if it couldn't find an existing file to write to). I stuck that in the script which pulls my mail through cron. Works great! If anyone is interested in the entire script, let me know. I put some checks in it to make sure mail-pulls are done only once (failsafe for the occasional commandline run) and a security net for when something goes wrong after checking mail. Paul -- It is better to have loved and lost, then never to have loved at all -Lord Alfred Tennyson http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 claws Open Source, Open Minds. Linux.
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