On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 08:54:42 -0800, /dev/rob0 <rob0@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> In article <87r7zqky7z.fld@barrow.com>, Floyd Davidson wrote:
>
> A lot of good advice; accurate, as always. But consider that the OP saw
> all those messages from fetchmail without understanding them. A user at
> that level has much learning to do. In the meantime he'll need to
> receive mail. So I'd start him here:
>
>> Read the man page for fetchmail, where the item you are interested in
>> is,
>>
>> -Z <nnn>, --antispam <nnn[, nnn]...>
>
> but instead point him to this section:
> -m <command> | --mda <command>
> (Keyword: mda) You can force mail to be passed to
> an MDA directly (rather than forwarded to port 25)
> with the --mda or -m option. To avoid losing mail,
> use this option only with MDAs like procmail ...
>
> ... so he won't have to struggle with sendmail nor DNS (other than to
> resolve the name of the pop3 server, which apparently works) right now.
>
> The requisite .fetchmailrc line is this:
> mda "/usr/bin/procmail -t -d $USER"
> (probably substituting the local username for $USER; I am not sure.)
> With this you don't get into the complexities of MTA spam filtering, but
> you're still free to play with procmail filtering at your leisure.

in my ~/.fetchmailrc it's:

and wants mda "/usr/bin/formail -ds /usr/bin/procmail"

You can specify a procmailrc by just listing it ...../bin/procmail filename"

AC