procmail and kmail

[Ross Henderson <nospam [at] virgin.net>]

-- i was having touble with fetchmail but i've managed to resolve that
so that i can download mail to my /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME directory.

problem now is that i can't find a mail client to use the combination of
sendmail, fetchmail & procmail.

i have a connect script that uploads then downloads mail. the new mail
ends up in /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME 

reading the mail with a text editor shows it to be all present and
correct.

kmail deletes the contents of the mail spool file when it checks for new
mail.
kbiff detects the new mail correctly but uses kmail to read it!
netscape reads the mail fine but doesn't seem to be configurable for
sendmail.
xfmail says the mail file is corrupt because it doesn't have a 'from'
line. i tried using procmail with the -f option, this hasn't helped.
balsa keeps crashing when it's been used a few times!

any sugestions......?



Ross
(ros.h@virgin.net)
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