Re: [Fetchmail-users] delay interval

[Gene H. <ghe...@sh...>]

On Thursday 05 January 2017 19:02:58 Matthias Andree wrote:

> Am 06.01.2017 um 00:15 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > On Thursday 05 January 2017 16:56:11 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> >> Procmail is offtopic here, and you don't say what distribution you
> >> are using, but surely it has a help forum or mail list. I use
> >> openSUSE, you can find me there and I'll be happy to try to help.
> >> Otherwise, mail me directly, and time permitting, I'll try to help.
> >
> > Pray tell me why procmail is off-topic here?  It's been doing an
> > excellent job here as the mta for fetchmail for about 15 years.
>
> Gene,
>
> a happy new year. The good news is that procmail is dead (good
> riddance), and isn’t a part of fetchmail. Procmail got deorbited by
> its authors, after more than a decade of being abandonware.
> It’s always been next to impossible to configure in a way to NOT goof
> up in adverse conditions (such as full disks, loaded systems,
> thereabouts).
>
> The old news is that procmail configuration isn’t subject of this
> list. Procmail used to have its own lists, and while questions of “how
> do I execute procmail from fetchmail’s --mda option” are on topic
> here, the actual procmail configuration is not.
>
> > Before you go touting a new mta, you should make sure it is in all
> > the big name repositories, but its not in debian for wheezy. The
> > only competition is getmail, which is a competitor of fetchmail
> > itself.
>
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/maildrop looks plausible for Debian,
> and maildrop has been more mature and usable than procmail ever was.
>
Humm, interestink.  A search in synaptic just before I posted that 
message did not find it.  After chasing thru the links on the above page 
and finally find it as a .deb in the wheezy main repo, I went back to 
synaptic after checking my sources.list entries, making no changes 
because the correct repo was already there and reloaded again, and lo, 
behold even, the search function spit it right out.  So now it and a 
couple dependencies are installed so I can at least study its man pages 
and how to tie it into fetchmail as the default mta.

One thing I have wanted to do for several years was to setup an imap repo 
on this machine that fetchmails mta could deposit the incoming mail 
into, and all kmails on this private network could reach into so that I 
could access it from any of the 6 machines behind dd-wrt here, including 
an R-Pi soon to be running a cnc lathe here.  From the name of one of 
the dependency's pulled in, I am wondering it that is possible, and if 
so, could this maildrop do a direct deposit, and how would I go about 
pulling in a 14 year old collection of msgs totalling around 20GB that 
kmail now maintains into the imap database.  But that part might be more 
apropo to be asked on the tde mailing list since I am running tde. Kde 
has wandered off into the desert and no longer suits my tastes, nor 
stability needs. The simplest way would be to just turn this mail corpus 
into an imap served by kmail to the rest of the house.  I'll have to ask 
a few questions I believe.

Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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