Re: Gnus Access mail spool by ssh

[Nuutti Kotivuori <nuutti.kotivuori@sonera.com>]

"Harry" == Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
> Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:
>> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>> 
>> > What does fetchmail do with it.  Deliver to /var/mail/$USER or put it
>> > on standard out of ssh command or what?
>> 
>> Fetchmail will send it to your local MTA (ie, sendmail).  It used to
>> drop it in the mail spool, but that feature was taken out for some
>> reason.
> 
> Thanks... I've cleaned up the crippled fetchmail and now can run the
> scripts I posted .  Sure enough the mail is fetched to local incoming
> spool.
> 
> *BUT* it is snatched from the parent incoming spool, so that the
>  parent (remote) looses access.  This is not what I was after.  I want
>  both machines to be able to process the same mail in whatever way
>  needed.

You can use the keep option to prevent this. But mail is still marked
as read if it's fetched by the fetchmail.

> Back to duplicating with procmail on parent (remote) .  But how to aim
> fetchmail at the duplicated spool?  Maybe a dummy account for the
> laptop to access... I'll try that.

Um. IMAP has multiple folder support. Find out how your IMAP server
handles multiple folder and store the messages to a folder named
remote for example. Then just pass folder option in your fetchmailrc.

-- Naked