From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 2 21:41: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F86B37B402 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2002 21:41:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id AD97AAC70046; Sat, 02 Feb 2002 21:41:43 -0800 Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 21:41:36 -0800 From: Chip Wiegand To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: email, email, email, :-( Message-Id: <20020202214136.31377fa3.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <20020202135508.B9530@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3C5BA9B8.7070606@wiegand.org> <20020202135508.B9530@xor.obsecurity.org> Organization: Alternative Operating Systems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:55:08 -0800 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:56:24AM -0800, chip wrote: > > What do some of you guys use, to download, filter, and read your > > mail > > from so many mail lists? > > I use fetchmail as POP3 client; postfix as MTA; procmail as mail > filter and mutt as MUA. I've never come across a more powerful and > configurable MUA than mutt..it's great! > > Kris Okay, now I have fetchmail up and running, verified with fetchmail -c -v and it reports the number of waiting messages. I also have procmail installed and set up the .procmailrc as follows - taken from http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html --- #Preliminaries SHELL=/usr/bin/sh #Use the Bourne shell (check your path!) MAILDIR=${HOME}/Mail #First check what your mail directory is! LOGFILE=${MAILDIR}/procmail.log LOG="--- Logging ${LOGFILE} for ${LOGNAME}, " #Whatever recipes you'll use #The order of the recipes is significant :0 * ^From: scam@cyberspam\.com /dev/null # Accept all the rest to your default mailbox :0: ${DEFAULT} And my .forward file looks like this - from the mutt faq (I ran the command to copy my home Mail directory to the .forward file, as described in the faq) --- /home/chip/Mail I also tried the following line in .forward (without the above line), and it didn't work either - Taken from the http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html site again --- "|IFS=''&& exec /usr/local/bin/procmail || exit 75 #myid" When I start Mutt I get the error ---- /var/mail/chip: no such file or directory (errorno = 2) and that is correct - there is no /var/mail/chip. It is supposed to use ~/Mail, which is set up in the above files, right? As a side note: when I first started this thread I was dissapointed with the gui email clients found in the ports, well I have since found one that appears to be okay - sylpheed-0.7.0claws. That is what I am using for the time being. I still want to get the above described set up working though. I plan on upgrading this machine to 4.5 next week and want to be settled on the set up for email before then, right now I have more than a dozen email clients installed. (what a mess). -- Chip Wiegand www.wiegand.org chip@wiegand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message