[Alpine-info] [OT-ish] Accessing POP3 with Fetchmail+Exim+UW-imapd or Getmail+UW-imapd

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, 17 May 2011, Dan wrote:


> On Tue, 17 May 2011, Mike Miller wrote:

>

>> Sorry if this doesn't help at all, but I use fetchmail to do the pop3 with 

>> Gmail.  I don't think it ever fails.  When the mail comes in, it is taken 

>> by procmail and distributed to inboxes according to procmail recipes.

>> 

>> If this is of interest, let me know and I'll send more info on the setup.

>

> Thanks Mike.  Yes, it's of interest... procmail would presumably replace 

> exim in the setup I described.  I'm slightly nervous, though, that 

> procmail seems to have a reputation as the hardest to configure of the 

> common SMTP servers, - and since we've established that I can't 

> configure exim properly... ;-)



I see that you've been getting some help.  I don't want to flood the list 
with more configuration files, but Dan should let me know if he has 
questions.

I agree with Ben that Procmail isn't hard to configure for simple uses. 
The way I learned to do more interesting filtering stuff was by reading 
procmail recipe examples.  I learned about it from Nancy McGough's web 
pages which seem to be here now:

http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/

I'm also using something called "spambouncer" with procmail, but now that 
Gmail is filtering spam for me, I really don't need ths spambouncer.

Mike