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jpalan
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 Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 10:10 am Post subject: Fetchmail -> mail goes where? |
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Ok, I think fetching the mail is the bottle neck of my mail system (fetchmail + postfix + procmail + mutt).
I don't like maildir, so I added "mbox -maildir" to USE flags and re-emerged all the mail software.
Fetchmail works ok, but where does the mail go? To the black hole?
I guess there should be /var/spool/mail/jpalan, but there isn't. How do I create one?  |
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CRASHTEST
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 10:17 am Post subject: |
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good question
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rizzo
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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You may still want to check that your /etc/postfix/main.cf file is going to use mbox instead of maildir. I'm not certain if the USE flags will change the default config.
You (want to) have the same setup that I do so I'll just paste in the code that you'll want to see:
| Code: | # DELIVERY TO MAILBOX
#
# The home_mailbox parameter specifies the optional pathname of a
# mailbox file relative to a user's home directory. The default
# mailbox file is /var/spool/mail/user or /var/mail/user. Specify
# "Maildir/" for qmail-style delivery (the / is required).
#
#home_mailbox = Mailbox
#home_mailbox = Maildir/
#home_mailbox = .maildir/
# The mail_spool_directory parameter specifies the directory where
# UNIX-style mailboxes are kept. The default setting depends on the
# system type.
#
#mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
# The mailbox_command parameter specifies the optional external
# command to use instead of mailbox delivery. The command is run as
# the recipient with proper HOME, SHELL and LOGNAME environment settings.
# Exception: delivery for root is done as $default_user.
#
# Other environment variables of interest: USER (recipient username),
# EXTENSION (address extension), DOMAIN (domain part of address),
# and LOCAL (the address localpart).
#
# Unlike other Postfix configuration parameters, the mailbox_command
# parameter is not subjected to $parameter substitutions. This is to
# make it easier to specify shell syntax (see example below).
#
# Avoid shell meta characters because they will force Postfix to run
# an expensive shell process. Procmail alone is expensive enough.
#
# IF YOU USE THIS TO DELIVER MAIL SYSTEM-WIDE, YOU MUST SET UP AN
# ALIAS THAT FORWARDS MAIL FOR ROOT TO A REAL USER.
#
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail
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jpalan
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 8:54 am Post subject: |
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| rizzo wrote: |
You (want to) have the same setup that I do so I'll just paste in the code that you'll want to see:
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Thank you, uncommenting the spool-line made it work. 
Now I just have to figure out, how to make procmail to actually filter. |
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rizzo
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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You'll want to have that mailbox_command line like I have at the bottom of my earlier post. Then you need a ~/.procmailrc file.
Mine looks like this:
| Code: | # Turn this on for debugging
VERBOSE=on
# Do a chmod g+w /var/spool/mail to get rid of locking errors
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/don
# Set up the directories
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
SPAMBOX=$MAILDIR/spam
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/log
# Create a lock so that only one concurrent user mail is checked
BOXLOCK=$MAILDIR/$LOGNAME.lock
# To avoid "insecurity" warnings from perl
DROPPRIVS=yes
# SpamAssassin (on mail less than 512kB) including the razor
:0fw: $BOXLOCK
* < 512000
| /usr/bin/spamassassin
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
$SPAMBOX
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After defining my various mail folders, it procmail sends all mail to spamassassin. SpamAssassin will mark any possible spam with a X-Spam-Status header. If procmail sees that header, it will put the mail into my $SPAMBOX. I have an actual spam mailbox, some people just put it in /dev/null. |
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jpalan
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| rizzo wrote: | | You'll want to have that mailbox_command line like I have at the bottom of my earlier post. Then you need a ~/.procmailrc file. |
Yep, I already had .procmailrc.
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MAILDIR=$HOME/.mail/
ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
DEFAULT=inbox
LOGFILE=/var/log/mail/procmail.log
:0:
* ^Subject:.[ghosthouse]
gh
:0:
* ^FROM_MAILER
postfix
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The main idea is, that posts from one of the private Yahoogroups mailing lists go to ~/.mail/gh and rest of the posts (except the ones sent by postfix) go to ~/.mail/inbox.
I add spam functionality later.
Thanks for your help. When I was using Mandrake everything worked straight away so I've been quite a while struggling with this mail thing in Gentoo.
Everything is slightly harder when you don't have all those fancy graphical configuration tools (I want to keep the system minimal).  |
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