Thanks. I will let you know the results...
=Paul
--- Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there, sorry for the delay...
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Paul Schwebel wrote:
Ralph,
I can see three possible approaches.
Approach 1:
The one you wrote here makes sense, but I'm not
snip
Yeah, but now...it's personal! ;-)
-Paul
--- Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or, really to make things simple, why not just drop
her old address (just
not use it), create a yahoo mail address for her,
and fetch that account
using pop? This may save you a hell of a lot of time
and
--- Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, quaylar wrote:
So you better not run /etc/procmailrc!
root privileges!!!
Just make a simple one and copy to other users...
much better than having
a security 'hole'!
Then, how do I get this to work? Say I
In reply to Paul Schwebel's words, written Thu, 1 Nov 2001 09:10:46 -0800
(PST)
Now, say I log in. I have a .procmailrc in my home
directory, so Linux invokes procmail. My recipe tries
to move mail addressed to my wife into her home
directory. I'm not logged in as root, so won't this
fail?
You
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Paul Schwebel wrote:
Then, how do I get this to work? Say I put a
.procmailrc in my home directory and another one in my
wifes.
The point of this is to filter the mail headers so
that mail addressed to me goes to my mailbox and mail
addressed to my wife goes to hers
Ralph,
I can see three possible approaches.
Approach 1:
The one you wrote here makes sense, but I'm not sure
what you meant below by export both our mail
folders. She uses Kmail, and I use Evolution.
Approach 2:
Put the .procmailrc in /etc and have procmail run as
root, though I'm not sure:
No, I think I get it. Right now I have fetchmail get
our mail. Then, you're saying that I can set up a
procmail recipe so that when I get the mail, it sends
wife-specific mail to her, and when she opens the
mail, it sents husband-specific mail to me. Right?
--- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In
In reply to Paul Schwebel's words, written Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:12:12 -0800
(PST)
No, I think I get it. Right now I have fetchmail get
our mail. Then, you're saying that I can set up a
procmail recipe so that when I get the mail, it sends
wife-specific mail to her, and when she opens the
mail, it
A couple of weeks ago i set up fetchmail (among others) with help from
this list... Works great now :) Thanks all!
Reading all your comments here about the danger of running procmail as
root. Is there not a similar warning with running fetchmail as root?
If not, what makes feetchmail safe and
At 12:14 31.10.2001 -0800, you wrote:
Thanks to the help I've gotten from this list, I'm
configuring fetchmail and procmail to retrieve and
sort my incoming mail. I'm on a single-user machine
runing 8.1.
The fetchmail part was easy, and I think I have an
idea of how to write procmail recipe. My
Here is my procmail recipe. Put it in $HOME/.procmailrc then if it is
working once you start fetching mail it will show where you sorted it in
$HOME/.procmaillog.
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Paul Schwebel wrote:
Thanks to the help I've gotten from this list, I'm
configuring fetchmail and
Will this work?? The man page says nothing about /etc/procmailrc.
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, quaylar wrote:
At 12:14 31.10.2001 -0800, you wrote:
Thanks to the help I've gotten from this list, I'm
configuring fetchmail and procmail to retrieve and
sort my incoming mail. I'm on a single-user
At 15:43 31.10.2001 -0500, you wrote:
Will this work?? The man page says nothing about /etc/procmailrc.
u sure ? and whats this then :
man procmail
If no rcfiles and no -p have been specified on the command
line, procmail will, prior to reading $HOME/.procmailrc,
interpret commands
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, quaylar wrote:
So you better not run /etc/procmailrc!
root privileges!!!
Just make a simple one and copy to other users... much better than having
a security 'hole'!
Will this work?? The man page says nothing about /etc/procmailrc.
u sure ? and whats this then :
man
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