Re: email (sendmail) conduit

[Patrick Decowski <decowski mit edu>]

hi antoon,

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Antoon Frehe wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm confused about the 'default' email conduit.
> 
> I somehow expected the email conduit to send and  retreive mail for my
> pilot. At setup i understood what the sendmail stuff was trials indeed
> show that i'm able to send mails prepared on my pilot.  I also sort of
> expected that i'd be able  to configure pop  or specify a mailbox file
> to synchronise with. The  gnomecc configurator isn't  completely clear
> on the subject. I experimented a bit with  filling in the MH directory
> and such but i fail to see the correct way.

the SendMail conduit can both send and receive mail. however, it only
understands the MH mail format for receiving mail at the moment,
although it would not be difficult to extend it to also understand
mbox and pop (one could hack it out of fetchmail and i have planned on
doing that for a while). to do MH, you need to first use the 'inc'
command to move the mail from your mbox file to a directory called
~/Mail/inbox. please note that at the moment you need to specify the
absolute dir in MH Mail directory, ie most likely
/home/$USER/Mail/inbox. you can probably write some procmail filter to
do it, since most likely you will not want to synchronize all your
mail with the pilot (or do you have one of the 8Mb palms? ;->). 

cheers,
patrick.

> 
> Is this  sendmail  conduit  specifically  for sending  mail  that  was
> prepared on the pilot or should it also be capable of synchronising my
> pilots mail  program with my (a)  mailbox folder on  my linux box with
> the mail? And if so, what should i do?
> 
> Thx in advance.
> Regards Antoon
> 
> 

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