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

[Rich Rudnick <rich pinute com>]

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 08:34, Fred Perloff wrote:
> 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?
If you're replacing pine completely, use server type: Standard Unix mbox
spools, and set the path to the mbox pine's been reading from. You won't
need to change anything in your procmail script.
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