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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:15:58PM +0000, Grant Sewell wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:01:03 +0000, Simon Avery wrote: > > Grant Sewell wrote: > As for procmail... I can't get my head around something... I retrieve my > messages with getmail, which can send them (individually) to procmail for > processing. What I've read of procmail suggests that once it's made a > decision as to where it goes, it sends it to your "MTA" (exim, in my > case... I think). But I don't use my exim for Internet email, only for > local stuff... well, I do use it for sending via SMTP, but that's about it. > If I were to get procmail to send it to getmail, would getmail not then > send it to procmail, which'd send it to getmail which'd sent it to > procmail... ad infinitum? > > Or am I missing something rather fundamental about how this all works? > I use the following: - Fetchmail (which also handles IMAP) to retrieve email. This hands the email over to - Procmail to filter it and for some email to send it automatically to the others. I also use procmail to convert html emails to text. This then files the email into my email boxes for - Mutt to read it - Exim4 to send I am still learning how to use Procmail but my recipes are slowly getting longer. Yes Thunderbird does all the above in one program. I much prefer the seperate programs -- Henry Tue Dec 4 14:41:26 GMT 2007
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