Is this a solution to duplicate emails?

Chris A Czerwinski chrisczerwinski at cogeco.ca
Wed Dec 17 14:55:22 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 09:39, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:00:33AM -0500, Chris A Czerwinski wrote:
> 
> [procmail receipe snipped]
> 
> > Can this work with Evolution? Since you say 'man procmailex' tells me
> > that this is a console/terminal command? How can I bring it or tie it to
> > Evolution.
> 
> I don't know whether you can tie something like this directly into
> Evolution's setup, as I've never used Evolution. It might be possible,
> if the filters that Evolution has are able to run external programs (in
> this case 'formail') - but someone else would have to confirm that.
> 
> Other than that, I'm using a fetchmail+procmail setup, i.e. fetchmail
> fetches the mail via POP3 and delivers it via procmail (not directly,
> but it's the default setup anyway, so I'll skip the details). Procmail
> then filters the mail as I see fit.
> Biggest advantage of this approach is that I'm completely free in what
> mail program I want to use - the filters will always work. I also use
> this to sort out mailing lists into separate folders.
> The downside (yup, there is one...) is that it's a bit more difficult to
> set up when you're new to fetchmail/procmail. With a bit of reading it's
> doable, though.
> 
> Cheerio,
> 
> Thomas

Thanks Thomas,

Is that another reason you would want to receive mail in PLAIN TEXT and
not HTML. What about attachments?

Newbie Chris Cz






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