[tech] Sane mail

[Nick Bannon]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:19:09PM +0800, Leighton Haynes wrote:
> I use procmail to sort my mail, most of which gets read only 
> occasionally, telling mutt to connect to mooneye's IMAP server is
> going to break that rather handily. 

<nod> Yes, I'm sure there must be a better way to handle procmail,
getmail was just what sprang to mind. What do other networks do?

(iiNet's a bit odd. Last I saw they even did the wrapper thing for pine
running on opera, which seems strange.)

> I much prefer having mooneye forward the mail to morwong for local delivery.
> This should allow procmail to sort it nicely, and most importantly, requires
> no effort on my part to set up. Always the best solution. 

On reflection, we can probably have the best of both worlds. mooneye
can lose its NFS mounts and SMTP-forward anyone's mail to morwong who
wants it. The rest can have it delivered then and there.

Nick.

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