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Date:      Tue, 5 Jan 1999 21:05:20 +1030 (CST)
From:      Matthew Thyer <matt@camtech.com.au>
To:        "David W. Chapman Jr." <dchapman@houabg.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sendmail throughput (was: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid,gid   required.)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901052049430.178-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <369077A1.3E637E35@houabg.com>

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It sounds like you want to setup the same thing that I have.

I am a dialup user who wishes to read mail by several different methods:
  - Pine on a dumb terminal (on the dinner table!).
  - Netscape 4.08 on the X server (in the computer room).
  - Remotely from other sites.

What I have done is:
  - Get mail with the 'popclient' port
  - pipe the above to procmail which creates my folder structure
  - serve up the folders with an IMAP server (the 'imap-uw-4.4' port)
  - Read the mail with Pine, Netscape 4.08, whatever

This is quite quick as IMAP only sends the subject lines when you open
a folder..... much like news.

I find this works very well except Netscape Communicator 4.08 is the
only Netscape that seems to work with 'imap-uw'.   Netscape 4.5 never
connects and neither did 4.07.

Further immplementation details below.

1) My 'DownloadMail' script:

/usr/local/bin/popclient -c -u thyerm pop.camtech.com.au |
/usr/local/bin/formail -s /usr/local/bin/procmail

2) The FreeBSD bits of my .procmailrc:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/imapmail
DEFAULT=Inbox

:0
* ^Subject: .*ja_JP.*
Trash

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* ^Subject: .*cvs commit: (doc/ja|www/ja|src/sys/pc98|ports/japanese|ports/korean|ports/chinese|ports/vietnamese|ports/german|ports/russian).*
Trash

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* ^Subject: .*- Imported sources.*
"FreeBSD/Imported sources"

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* ^Subject: .*cvs commit: CVSROOT.*
FreeBSD/cvs-all/CVSROOT

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* ^Subject: .*cvs commit: ports.*
FreeBSD/cvs-ports

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* ^Subject: .*cvs commit: www.*
FreeBSD/cvs-all/www

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* ^Subject: .*cvs commit: src/release/picobsd.*
FreeBSD/cvs-all/picoBSD

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* ^Subject: .*cvs commit:.*
FreeBSD/cvs-all/cvs-all

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* ^(To|Cc): .*(current@FreeBSD\.org|current@freefall\.cdrom\.com|committers@FreeBSD\.org).*
FreeBSD/CURRENT

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* ^From: .*FreeBSD Security Officer.*
"FreeBSD/FreeBSD Security"

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* ^Subject: .*FreeBSD Security Advisory.*
"FreeBSD/FreeBSD Security"


On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote:

> I see where your comming from, but as I believe Mr Tubutis put it, the ideal
> setup would to have the mail list "link" the the news server.  Therefore those
> who still would like the email, can keep it, those who like the news group
> could also use that.  I guess filtering spam or junk mail isn't  my primary
> reason for wanting to switch, I think I can keep my mouth shut when another one
> comes along.  I like the newsgroup because when I go to check my email, I don't
> have to wait a couple of minutes for them all to download.
> 
> 
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> 
> 

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|Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au|
\=====================================================================/
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quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some
larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the
question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our
Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."
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