Re: [Evolution] sendmail -> procmail -> evolution, all on local host

[Juan Martinez <martinez eecs cwru edu>]

I use both pine and evolution depending on the situation.  You should
not have procmail filter your mail into mailboxes that evolution handles
directly.  Having procmail change the contents of those mailboxes will
make for a bad situation with evolution.

You can continue to use procmail and have both pine and evolution access
the same mailboxes but you must access your mailstore through IMAP.

The setup is not difficult.  Remember that you need to configure pine to use
IMAP as well.


Juan


On 1 May 2002, Fred Perloff wrote:

> Date: 01 May 2002 08:34:00 -0700
> From: Fred Perloff <fperloff mind net>
> To: evolution ximian com
> Subject: [Evolution] sendmail -> procmail -> evolution, all on local host
>
> I am running sendmail on my localhost. It dumps my mail in
> /var/spool/mail/$USER. Then I am running procmail to filter spam. Right
> now procmail is moving filtered mail to $HOME/mail where I read it with
> pine.
>
> I would like to use evolution as my MUA. Can someone help me with the
> syntax for the procmail filter to move mail where evolution can find it,
> and where I should point evolution in Tools | Mail Setting | Receiving
> Mail | server type & configuration in order to read the filtered mail
> spool?
>
> TIA,
> Fred