[95451] in RedHat Linux List
Procmail and Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Urbanik)
Sun Oct 18 19:49:37 1998
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:49:18 +0800
From: Nick Urbanik <nicku@iohk.com>
Reply-To: nicku@vtc.edu.hk
To: Redhat List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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I would like to be able to read mail using other mail programs as well
as using Netscape Communicator 4.06. With that aim, I setup procmail to
filter my mail. The result is that when cron runs fetchmail, (for
reasons I don't understand) procmail automatically runs, putting the
mail into the appropriate mail folders. Since the mail was being put
into all the correct files and directories, and I could read it from my
experimental ~/nsmail directory using Netscape, it all looked so good
that I did cat ~/nsmail-test/<mail-folder> >> ~/nsmail/<mail-folder> for
each folder (there are very many!)
And now it seems that I can't read new mail!
1. What causes procmail to start automatically? ps auxw | grep
procmail reveals procmail isn't running otherwise. .fetchmailrc
contains nothing to start it. Is this something to do with
sendmail?
2. Is appending the contents of one mail file to the end of another
going to inevitably cause problems?
3. Is procmail incompatible with Netscape? I see no mention of
procmail on Netscape's site.
4. Does anyone have any solution to the problem of having filters run
independently of any one mail reader? The problem is that over the
phone, Netscape runs very slowly; I want to be able to use other
faster text-mode mail readers as well as Netscape locally, but
since I get so much email daily, I want to filter it into the
appropriate mail folders without being dependent on one program.
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Nick Urbanik, Dept. of Electrical & Communications Engineering
Honk Kong Technical College (Tsing Yi)
email: nicku@vtc.edu.hk, nicku@iohk.com
Tel: (852) 2436 8660, (825) 2436 8674 Fax: (852) 2436 8643
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