On 14/11/2021 01.56, Bob Rogers wrote:
From: "Carlos E. R."
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 01:42:17 +0100 . . .
Reading... says:
Use the mda option in your .fetchmailrc to specify maildrop or procmail as your MDA.
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I also think the MDA thing is not necessary. I don't use either fetchmail or procmail myself, but it seems to me you should be able to get procmail to generate the "From " lines directly. According to "man procmail",
Procmail normally generates those lines correctly, it simply doesn't for some reason. I have a working procmail recipe system, very big. But this time, for reasons of my own, I need to bypass them and use an specific procmail file. I'm thinking that the "fetchmail ... mda procmail" method only works with Maildir folders.
When in explicit delivery mode, procmail will generate a leading `From ' line if none is present . . .
And it appears that you can force procmail into "explicit delivery mode" with "-d username" (which will work if you use your username).
-d cer? Ok, trying. ... mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d cer -m $HOME/.procmailrc_TLtmp" Does not work. It ignores the -m part, and delivers using the default recipe, /home7cer/.procmailrc and does the sorting that it thinks proper, which is not the one I want this time. I now have to find those 20 mails it sorted and delete them. Fortunately in this case it is a single folder. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))