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Re: [PLUG] fetchmail+exim+pine
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> I have been using fetchmail (pop3, myrealbox), exim and pine to view my
> e-mails. Recently when I do fetchmail, everything is fetched correct BUT I
> am thinking exim is taking a very long time to deliver it to my local
> mailbox (/home/foo/mail). So, every few hours, when pine is loaded a new
> mail comes, which was supposed to be there instantly. Anyone else
> experience this? Is there a fix?
One possible workaround is to avoid using an MTA for local delivery, and
instead have fetchmail communicate directly with a local delivery agent
such as procmail. I've been using the following in my fetchmailrc for
almost a year now to pull mail off of an exchange server at work:
mda '/usr/bin/procmail -f "%F"'
-mct
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