[OT] fetchmail, procmail and mutt (oh my!)

[Toni Schmidbauer]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:46:31PM -0500, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> If I put 'mda /usr/local/bin/procmail' in the .fetchmailrc lines, 
> procmail puts the emails in the correct mbox files; but mutt complains 
> that the files are not valid email files and refuses to read them.

i've this line in my .fetchmailrc:

poll <mailserver> with proto imap user "username" pass "pass" mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d %T' ssl

i believe it's important to invoke procmail with the -d option,
but read procmail(1).

works like a charm for me.

hth,
toni
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