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   7 <H1>Configuring fetchmail and procmail for local delivery</H1>
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   9 I wanted to fetch my email from a IMAP server and be able to read it
  10 using good old elm.  To do this I decided to use fetchmail to get the
  11 email from the IMAP server, and procmail to do the local delivery.
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  13 The fetchmail config file (<TT>~/.fetchmailrc</TT>) file needs to call
  14 procmail with '-f-':
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  17 # Configuration created Wed Mar  8 10:06:26 2000 by fetchmailconf
  18 set postmaster "pere"
  19 set daemon 30 # seconds between mail checks
  20 poll eeserver.ee.uwa.edu.au with proto IMAP
  21   mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f-"
  22 poll odin.ee.uwa.edu.au with proto IMAP
  23   mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f-"
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  26 The procmail config file need to specify path to required support
  27 programs, and where to store the incoming email:
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  30 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
  31 MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail           #you'd better make sure it exists
  32 DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/imap-mbox   #completely optional
  33 LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from        #recommended
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  37 Petter Reinholdtsen, March 2000
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