Re: [PLUG] fetchmail+exim+pine

[Naresh <nganta@myrealbox.com>]

I have actually been using procmail to filter my email.

Thanks for a good suggestion BTW

On Thu, 8 May 2003, Michael C. Toren wrote:

> > 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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