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[fetchmail-users] mda command: ?options

[Andrew S. <and...@gm...>]

Hi,

I am using fetchmail release 6.3.8+SSL+NLS with procmail
v3.22 2001/09/10. In my ignorance I am calling procmail from my
.fetchmailrc as follows:

mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %s" 

My question is: what do the options mean? I had a look in the man
entry and -d specifies the start of a daemon that should poll every
xxseconds. But I am unaware of the significance of %s, except to guess
that this is where I specify a time interval?

My useage of fetchmail / procmail is very 'manual'. I call fetchmail
from within mutt, expect procmail to do its work and close down, as I
expect fetchmail to close down.

 Thanks for your help,

       Andrew 

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Re: [fetchmail-users] mda command: ?options

[Andrew S. <and...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 02:50:06PM +1000, Andrew Strong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using fetchmail release 6.3.8+SSL+NLS with procmail
> v3.22 2001/09/10. In my ignorance I am calling procmail from my
> .fetchmailrc as follows:
> 
> mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %s" 
> 
> My question is: what do the options mean? I had a look in the man
> entry and -d specifies the start of a daemon that should poll every
> xxseconds. But I am unaware of the significance of %s, except to guess
> that this is where I specify a time interval?

Oops: they are actually procmail commands aren't they, rather than
Fetchmail commands? This means that -d is:

This  turns  on  explicit  delivery  mode, delivery will be to the
local user recipient.

although %s still leaves me a little puzzled.

   Apologies,

    Andrew 

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Re: [fetchmail-users] mda command: ?options

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Andrew Strong asked about the --mda option this:

> although %s still leaves me a little puzzled.

It's been superseded by %T. It works the same as %T, but is no longer
documented.

HTH
Matthias