Re: procmail and kmail

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Ross Henderson wrote:
> problem now is that i can't find a mail client to use the combination of
> sendmail, fetchmail & procmail.

Hmmm, we're getting MTAs, MUAs, etc. all confused again... why is there
no decent howto?!

> kmail deletes the contents of the mail spool file when it checks for new
> mail.

I can't believe it just deletes it. Does it move it somewhere else? Or is
there an option in kmail to say 'delete when read'?

> netscape reads the mail fine but doesn't seem to be configurable for
> sendmail.

Well, my netscape (okay, IRIX 5.2, might not be the same for linux!) has:
Preferences/Mail&Groups/Mail Server/Mail Server Type
.. which I set to:
Movemail application / External Application
.. which I set to:
/usr/sbin/movemail

I would imagine sendmail would work there too. Although, of course, your
netscape might be different. But it should be able to use the local
transport system, that shouldn't be a problem..


> 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!

Sounds like you've got something misconfigured if *everything* is barfing,
although the different error messages suggest this may not be the case.
Mmm, dunno, I'm afraid :(

Cheers,

Alex.


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