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Joel Reicher | 13 Jan 2007 21:49

Re: [NEWBIE]: fetchmail/procmail and inc

> In the message dated: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:22:29 +0100,
> The pithy ruminations from Xavier Maillard on 
> <Re: [Nmh-workers] [NEWBIE]: fetchmail/procmail and inc > were:
> => Hi Ralph,
> => 
> => > > Fetchmail is used to retrieve my mails. It then passes them to
> => > > procmail which stores them into my mail spool.
> 
> I do the same thing.

I don't understand why you would want to; it means you can't use procmail
to sort messages into different folders.

Cheers,

	- Joel

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Valdis.Kletnieks | 14 Jan 2007 04:43
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Re: [NEWBIE]: fetchmail/procmail and inc

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:49:16 +1100, Joel Reicher said:
> I don't understand why you would want to; it means you can't use procmail
> to sort messages into different folders.

Odd.  I get about 900 pieces of e-mail via fetchmail/procmail a day, sorted
into several dozen different folders.  Seems to work quite well.

A *small* portion of my .procmailrc (which is over 900 lines now):

:0 E:linux-audit/$LOCKEXT
*^(To:|cc:).*linux-audit <at> redhat.com
|rcvstore +linux-audit

:0 E:linux-lspp/$LOCKEXT
*^(To:|cc:).*redhat-lspp <at> redhat.com
|rcvstore +linux-lspp

:0 E:nmh/$LOCKEXT
*^(To:|cc:).*nmh-workers <at> nongnu.org
|rcvstore +nmh

:0 E:syslog-ng/$LOCKEXT
*^(To:|cc:).*syslog-ng <at> lists.balabit.hu
|rcvstore +syslog-ng

That splits out 4 mailing lists.  Now, as you were saying?


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Joel Reicher | 14 Jan 2007 05:36

Re: [NEWBIE]: fetchmail/procmail and inc

> On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:49:16 +1100, Joel Reicher said:
> > I don't understand why you would want to; it means you can't use procmail
> > to sort messages into different folders.
> 
> Odd.  I get about 900 pieces of e-mail via fetchmail/procmail a day, sorted
> into several dozen different folders.  Seems to work quite well.

My reply was to the following comment from Xavier:

"Fetchmail is used to retrieve my mails. It then passes them to
procmail which stores them into my mail spool."

It's possible I misunderstood what was meant by "mail spool", but I
read it to mean the maildrop, in which case Xavier would be using
the maildrop as a temporary space after procmail but before
inc.

I was wanting to imply that using procmail to store into folders directly
or via rcvstore is a better idea, because then you *can* sort into
different folders.

Cheers,

	- Joel

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