[plug] Sendmail and procmail problems !!!!

[John Summerfield]

> Michael,
> Do you need sendmail? It might be easier to tell fetchmail to use procmail
> directly as it MDA.

There is no advantage to that; Eric thinks the program would be better 
without that feature.


> 
>   The real problem is that the 'real' addressee may not even be in the
> e-mail file., e.g. a BCC. But hopefully your ISP mailserver adds a
> "Received:" line to the header, which gives the real addressee. Use that
> to determine the destination mailbox, not the TO rule.

fetchmail can sort the mail itself from those headers, and just might be 
better than procmail at it (a program written to a purpose as opposed to a 
general purpose program).



> hope that helps,

For more info, if you can't figure it from the fetchmail docs, join the 
fetchmail-friends list.



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John Summerfield
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