On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Matthew Coulliette wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am trying to setup fetchmail to get my email from the server, procmail to
sort my email, and mutt to read my email. So far, fetchmail appears to work.
It gets the mail and puts it in /var/mail/username. I believe that the next
step is to have procmail sort it into mailboxes. I have created a .mail dir
in my home dir. I attached a copy of the .procmailrc file that I have
written. It does not appear to work. Can someone tell me what is wrong with
the config file. Any other comments or suggestions are also welcome.
My .fetchmailrc file looks like this:
poll "pop.west.cox.net"
protocol pop3
username "xxxxxx"
password "xxxxxxxxxx"
mimedecode
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f -"
Note the call to procmail. You didn't say which mailbox format you
wanted. This will deliver mail in mbox format. If you want the maildir
format the URL in the other reply might be what you want. Don't know.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both formats.
In your .procmailrc file MAILDIR=/home/matthewmpp/.mail doesn't work. I
learned that the hard way. It will always revert to the default mailbox.
You had it right with DEFAULT=/home/matthewmpp/.mail/all. Is there a
reason you got away from that? The relevant part of my >procmailrc file
is:
#MAILDIR=/var/mail
#MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail
DEFAULT=$HOME/mail/INCOMING <========
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