MUTT - fetchmail? procmail? or only need sendmail?

[Srot BULL]

Thank you very much...
Now...after a needed rest (because of my first encounter of muttrc last 
night)...I will continue my reading on fetchmail and then procmail...
About Sendmail and Postfix...I will see until where can I handle 
things...hehe

Many thanks to you again...
Have a nice day!

Srot BULL

> Srot BULL <pwd8jmr22w at me.point.ne.jp> wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I hope that you guys are in the mood to help me out here.
>>
>>The Short version:
>>I just want to use mutt as my MUA.
> 
> 
> OK, so far.
> 
> 
>>The Long version:
>>I just want to use mutt as my MUA.
>>I have diffirent email accounts (all POP Accounts) and I want all emails 
>>delivered in different mailboxes that I have created and have mutt read 
>>them.
> 
> 
> ThatŽs exactly what I do here.
> 
> 
>>I went to the mutt homepage and read about mutt not being able to filter 
>>emails. It mentioned about fetchmail and procmail. I did some reading 
>>but somehow...i give-up maybe because I have been comtemplating and been 
>>doing some reading in mutt for days now. I have finally finished my 
>>muttrc but, I still use mutt only for testing (i am presently using 
>>thunderbird as you can see).
>>Now, what would you guys do if you have different POP mail accounts and 
>>want them delivered in specific folders.
>>Do I really have to use fetchmail to retrieve my emails
> 
> 
> Yes, you have to.
> 
> First of all I use fetchmail to get all my mail from the different
> locations. Here you can find a sample ~/.fetchmailrc
> 
> ---8<--
> ### location #1 ###
> poll mailserver.location1.com
> proto POP3
> user username_on_first_remote_server
> password password_for_user_on_first_remote_server
> is local_username
> 
> ### location #2 ###
> poll mailout.location2.net
> proto POP3
> user username_on_second_remote_server
> password password_for_user_on_second_remote_server
> is local_username
> -->8---
> 
> 
>>and have procmail delivered them to my folders
> 
> 
> Why not, procmail does itŽs job very well.
> 
> HereŽs the way, I configured procmail (just a sample) in 
> ~/.procmailrc.
> 
> ---8<--
> ###~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~###
> ### my first email ###
> ###________________###
> :0:
> * ^To:.*my-first-email at location1.com
> in/my-first-email
> 
> ###~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~###
> ### my second email ###
> ###_________________###
> :0:
> * ^To:.*my-second-email at location1.com
> in/my-second-email
> --->8--
> 
> 
>>and then have sendmail deliver all 
>>my outgoing emails?
> 
> 
> No, here you can use another MTA (e.g. Postfix, Exim, etc.).
> But for mutt itŽs necesary, that there is a local MTA listening
> on port 25. I prefere Postfix, but if you like Sendmail, there
> should be no problem.
> 
> 
>>Can't sendmail do this all?
> 
> 
> No, Sendmail is just a MTA. There is no way to fetch mails
> from POP-accounts.
> 
> 
>>If you have combinations that you can share please do.
> 
> 
> In order te let Mutt know of all these mailboxes, I use 
> the option "mailboxes" in my ~/.muttrc.
> 
> ---8<--
> mailboxes ! \			# local mailbox (/var/mail/$USERNAME)
>         =in/my-first-email \
>         =in/my-second-email
> -->8---
> 
> 
>>Thanks and hope to hear from anybody...
>>
>>Srot BULL
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
> 	Sven
>