Help configuring fetchmail

linux at bizniche.com linux at bizniche.com
Wed Oct 13 13:26:01 CDT 2004


> Courier-IMAP provides the IMAP support for Mozilla Thunderbird and in my
> case the backend for a webmail client like squirrelmail.
> 
> Filtering for your local user accounts can come from exim/postfix/sendmail
> or through procmail.  In my setup, mail is received through exim, then
> handed off to procmail, which sorts and delivers my mail to ~/Maildir
> where my mail lives peacefully.
> 
> The IMAP server accesses the mail from that location and allows me to
> read, delete, etc it.

That sounds exactly like what I want to do. I guess I get confused
because I often see procmail and exim mentioned in the same
context...leading me to believe they do the same thing.   

So, all I need to add is procmail.  Currently, I guess exim sends the
mail to my Maildir...and now I need to tell it to send to procmail
instead.  I'll read up on procmail and see how it might fit in.

Matt



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