[imp] Prerequisites for horde and imp head
Patrick Hawley
hawley_p@ociweb.com
Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:37:00 -0500
Scott Martin wrote:
>
> What is procmail? Is it a program that can be used in place of fetchmail?
taken from www.procmail.org:
> Procmail can be used to create mail-servers, mailing lists, sort
> your incoming mail into separate folders/files (real convenient
> when subscribing to one or more mailing lists or for prioritising
> your mail), preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail
> arrival (e.g. to generate different chimes on your workstation
> for different types of mail) or selectively forward certain
> incoming mail automatically to someone.
most commonly, it allows one to file imp messages in to one's lists-imp
'folder', emails from one's sweetie in to one's private-love-letters
'folder', etc.
check out
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/users/reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html for a
procmail FAQ
and http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/index.html for Fetchmail info.
Patrick