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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:41:43 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] using acme/Mail from plan9port in Linux
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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> I have no idea if this is related but in the early days with gmail it would
> automaticially remove messages when they where downloaded so they disappeared
> as fast as you tried to read them.
>
> Perhaps your imap server is doing somthing similar?

That was with POP3, not with IMAP.

As to the original question, when I run acme Mail on
plan9port I don't bother to set up the upas mail queues,
which frankly I don't trust on top of a Unix file system.
Instead you can create a $HOME/bin/pipefrom that
sends the mail via the system mailer, maybe even
on another machine.

This is my current version, which is a bit more complex
than it needs to be, but you get the idea.  You could
drop the ssh if you trust your local mail installation
to be configured properly.

Russ

#!/usr/local/plan9/bin/rc

host=swtch.com  # where to relay via ssh

if(! ~ $#upasname 1)
	upasname=rsc+bounces@swtch.com

echo $* >>/home/rsc/pipefrom.log
. /usr/local/plan9/bin/9.rc

if(~ $1 -x){
	shift
	echo $*
	exit 0
}
if(~ $1 -*){
	echo 'cannot deal with options' >[1=2]
	exit 1
}

ipaddr=`{/sbin/ifconfig | sed -n 's/.*inet addr:([^ ]*) .*/\1/p'}
if(~ $#ipaddr 0){
	echo not online >[1=2]
	exit offline
}

exec ssh $host sendmail -f $upasname $* rsc+outbox@swtch.com