[UFO Chicago] setting up mutt mail

[Brian T. Grant]

This is the configuration that I'm running on my Linux box at home:

1)  Postfix for the MTA - http://www.postfix.org/ I have only configured
exim and postfix, so I can't comment on sendmail. I know that the company
I work for -- onShore, Inc. -- is moving away from sendmail to postfix on
the mail servers we set up.

2)  Fetchmail pulls down mail for a couple of outside accounts. I used the
graphical configuration tool fetchmailconf to get it set up, but after
looking at its configuration file, it looks like it would be pretty simple
to configure manually. Then, I run fetchmail in daemon mode to poll those
accounts at regular intervals. The command I run is "fetchmail -d 900"
which throws the process in the background -- it doesn't hog a terminal --
and then polls the configured accounts every 900 senconds.

3)  Procmail filters both the mail that is coming in directly to my mail
server (skeletonjack.net) and the mail being pulled down through
fetchmail. For example, I have all of the UFO Chicago mail sent to
/dev/null. No, actually I have it filtered into
/home/brian/mail/Lists/UFO_Chicago. I had a LOT of trouble configuring
procmail, mostly because the tutorial I was using seemed to have at least
a couple of typos, which negates its usefulness almost entirely. I think
I found what I needed in the man pages.

Brian
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Lukas Eklund wrote:

> Quoting John Kilbourne:
> > How do I tell the mutt its address, so it can receive and send and
> > receive mail outside my own little network of one user?
>
> This doc might be somewhat useful:
>
> http://www.linuxnovice.org/main_software.php3?VIEW=VIEW&t_id=146
>
> The only drawback with using mutt to fetch your POP mail is that you
> don't get to use procmail to filter all incoming mail. You can also
> use fetchmail to get your mail and procmail to filter it and put it in
> specific mailboxes. But I haven't actually done that, so I'm really no
> help at all.
>
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