[olug] fetchmail

[Mike Hostetler]

All fetchmail does is grab your remote mail and gives it to your local
MTA.  Here is how I would list it:

1. fetchmail to your local sendmail or qmail or postfix
2. postfix to procmail
3. procmail to folder or spool
4. Mutt to read.

make sense ??
-- mikeh


On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:05:38AM -0500, roger schmeits wrote:
> Sanity check here:
> You use fetchmail to yank the mail off the server. 
> Then you use procmail to filter all the maillists that you are on right?
> 
> email server ---> laptop with fetchmail --> procmail (filter for various
> listservs' mbox) ----> use mutt to read
> 
> ???
> 
> 
> How does one set fetchmail to run a a daemon?
> 
> Cron?
> 
> Roger
> 
> 
> 
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