Procmail and aliases...?

Hi
I have installed procmail on FreeBSD 6.2 and it works good with
my local login name. But when I use getmail to fetch the mail
from my isp (three adresses) it doesn't work. What is the right
workaround to this problem? Setting up some alias? In that case
where? I have tried setting alias in /etc/mail/aliases, but that
didn't solved the problem. I have also tried to write my isp
mail-name in .forward. There must be others that have this
problem? Or is setting up a mailserver first necessary?

/Mats

Re: Procmail and aliases...?

Mats :
>
> I have installed procmail on FreeBSD 6.2 and it works good with
> my local login name. But when I use getmail to fetch the mail
> from my isp (three adresses) it doesn't work. What is the right
.................................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What does that mean? :-P

I don't know getmail (I use fetchmail), but I do this:

user 'blurbl' there with password 'as.jdhg' is 'floorg' here ...

I'd assume getmail supports similar behaviour.


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Re: Procmail and aliases...?

s. keeling wrote:
> Mats :
>>
> What does that mean? :-P
>
> I don't know getmail (I use fetchmail), but I do this:
>
> user 'blurbl' there with password 'as.jdhg' is 'floorg' here ...
>
> I'd assume getmail supports similar behaviour.

And it worked perfect when I installed fetchmail. I don't know if
getmail have "xxx there is yyy here". And know I'm trying to
figure out the best way to make fetchmail fetch the mail
automatic every 5 minutes or so. I know fetchmail -ad 300, but I
saw that that it's possible to use "set daemon 300" in .fetchrc.
Well, that can't be a to big problem.

/Mats

Re: Procmail and aliases...?

Mats :
> s. keeling wrote:
> >
> > I don't know getmail (I use fetchmail), but I do this:
> >
> > user 'blurbl' there with password 'as.jdhg' is 'floorg' here ...
>
> getmail have "xxx there is yyy here". And know I'm trying to
> figure out the best way to make fetchmail fetch the mail
> automatic every 5 minutes or so. I know fetchmail -ad 300, but I

I have this cute little thing called Gkrellm. It runs fetchmail
periodically (interval user configurable), and Gkrellm notices and
notifies me when anything arrives. It watches multiple mailboxes, and
has a button to fire up my mail user agent.

It even plays a little sound file when stuff arrives.

fetchmail doesn't need to run as a daemon. Wretched excess IMO. :-)

Gkrellm does a lot of other neat stuff unrelated to mail.


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Re: Procmail and aliases...?

s. keeling wrote:
> Mats :
>> s. keeling wrote:
> I have this cute little thing called Gkrellm. It runs fetchmail
> periodically (interval user configurable), and Gkrellm notices and
> notifies me when anything arrives. It watches multiple mailboxes, and
> has a button to fire up my mail user agent.

I guess it's something that needs X? For the moment I'm reading
my mail in mutt and this newsgroup in tin in console-mode. But I
will try your tips on another machine.

/Cheers from Mats