Re: Gnus and fetchmail

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:

> My question now is if fetchmail can deliver to some file which Gnus
> then can read as inbox (and then do splitting) or if I need procmail
> (in MDA mode) too.

I think old versions of fetchmail could deliver directly to a file,
but more recent versions can't, anymore.  You could set up an MTA
(sendmail, say) on your host and then use that from fetchmail.  (The
MTA only needs to be able to deliver local mail.)

Speaking of deliver, I think that Debian comes with a program called
`deliver' which can deliver local mail.

> Any other ideas for the problem "getting (sending) mail and news from
> (to) ISP X to (from) Gnus"? I would like to have two options: 1. Have
> a script in crontab and 2. be able to do it on demand. Both are easy
> to accomplish if I can be able to produce a script that gets the mail
> into /var/spool/mail/$USER, uploads whatever mail I've sent, and do
> the same thing for news.

I think for the uploading mail part an MTA would be useful.  You could
configure the MTA to queue all mail for you and to send it on demand.
(For sendmail, the command would be `sendmail -q'.)

kai
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