[Techtalk] procmail & fetchmail problem

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Sat Dec 6 15:49:04 EST 2003


To use procmail as the mda with fetchmail add the line 
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
to your .fetchmailrc at the end of the poll statement for the particular
account, then you can just run fetchmail, or as I do you can run
fetchmail as a daemon by issuing -d and the amount of seconds you want
fetchmail to check, you can also have fetchmail report to syslog with
the --syslog option to consolidate your logs :)

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 12:24:17AM +0600, Noir wrote:
> I check mails in mutt using fetchmail; the command I use is "fetchmail -av
> -m "usr/share/bin/procmail -d %T" which is supposed to fetchmail & filter
> mails according to procmail's ruleset.
> 
> But in my procmail log I get an error "illegal option -D"
> 
> Could anyone help me identify the mistake I am making? My system is
> FreeBSD.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Noir.
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