awesome. I wasn't sure what was supposed to be doing what. I just got lucky and found a solution with courier and exim. :) I'll go dig around on google, and see how things work out. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield Web: tysdomain.com email: tyler at tysdomain.com My programs don't have bugs, they're called randomly added features. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:13 AM Subject: Re: solution for mail filters > You can have procmail do the sorting and tossing for you so that fetchmail > does it's job, and passes it to your mta. Then the mta uses procmail to > put things where they need to go. > > I used to do this a couple of years back and had mail going in the right > places and it worked beautifully with mutt as my mail reader. However I'm > no longer using this, but there may be archives from me and a few others > archived in this list which give the answers and maybe some examples. > > Good luck. > > Tyler Littlefield wrote the following on 4/27/2009 11:04 AM: >> Hello list, >> I figured out my issue with fetchmail; it was erroring because courier >> was using maildir, while exim was using /var/mail. Fixing the two to >> match solved the problems. >> I've currently got a script that looks something like: >> wihle true;do >> fetchmail >> sleep 60 >> done >> which runs in nohup ./fetch & >> Is there a cleaner way to run this? I'd like to see it run when the >> system starts, though I don't want to retrieve mail as root. >> Also, I want to filter out certain people from mailing me. Or run filters >> on the mail like running it through spamassassin and clamav before it >> hits my box. Is this easy to do with fetchmail? >> I don't know how these work, so I'm not totally sure how i'd go about >> doing that. >> >> >> Thanks, > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos -- http://www.asmodean.net > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 4036 (20090427) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
