I do have "set mbox_type=mbox" Isn't that what it's supposed to be? I have no clue. I just started to use Mutt, I don't understand the different types of mailboxes yet. Here is my fetchmail.rc file: __________________________________________________________________________ # Configuration created Sun Mar 10 05:15:59 2002 by fetchmailconf set logfile "/home/jerry/mail/fetchmail_log" set postmaster "jerry" set bouncemail set no spambounce set properties "" poll pop3.ispwest.com with proto POP3 user 'jerryvb' there with password 'xxxxxxxx' is 'jerry' here options stripcr keep mda '/usr/bin/procmail #-d %Y' ___________________________________________________________________________ And here is my procmail.rc file: __________________________________________________________________________ Please check if all the paths in PATH are reachable, remove the ones that # are not. PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:. MAILDIR=$HOME/muttmail # You'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox #LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail # SuSE-Linux English Mailing List :0 * ^(To:|Cc:|From:|Re:|Reply-To:).*suse-linux-e@suse.(com|de) suse-linux __________________________________________________________________________ Using the above rc files, typing "fetchmail" in a console downloads my mail into /home/jerry/muttmail/inbox an /home/jerry/muttmailsuse-linux. Now, here is the first message in my inbox file: ____________________________________________________________________________ Return-path: Received: from pop3.ispwest.com [216.52.245.18] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jerry@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 10 Mar 2002 14:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.gbnet.net (unverified [194.70.126.10]) by ispwestemail.aceweb.net (Vircom SMTPRS 1.1.219) with SMTP id for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 18:44:18 -0800 Received: (qmail 6133 invoked by uid 610); 9 Mar 2002 02:45:09 -0000 Delivered-To: mutt-users@ns.gbnet.net Received: (qmail 6111 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2002 02:44:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO knute.home) (66.188.232.161) by ns.gbnet.net with SMTP; 9 Mar 2002 02:44:59 -0000 Received: from knute by knute.home with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16jWts-00016F-00 for ; Fri, 08 Mar 2002 20:48:00 -0600 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:48:00 -0600 From: Knute To: mutt-users@mutt.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Setting the hostname used in HELO Message-ID: <20020309024800.GA2819@knute.home> Mail-Followup-To: mutt-users@mutt.org References: <3C7D92D7.FACD7CC9@fssi-ca.com> <20020228024618.GA9180@knute.home> <3C853358.DE19A32F@fssi-ca.com> <20020305150816.A11167@twoflower.internal.do> <3C8536BC.4578D3F0@fssi-ca.com> <20020309004717.GE8420@linuxfreemail.com> <20020308185144.A29143@twoflower.internal.do> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020308185144.A29143@twoflower.internal.do> Sender: owner-mutt-users@mutt.org Precedence: bulk --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc _______________________________________________________________________________ Now, my problem is that when I point Mutt to the inbox file it says that "/home/jerry/muttmail/inbox" is not a mailbox. What do I have to do or set to either tell Mutt that it IS a mailbox, or is fetchmail/procmail downloading the mail in the wrong format? How do I tell fetchmail/procmail to download it in the right format. I have read the manuals and the man pages and I can't fogure it out. Thanks, Jerry Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 08 Mar 2002, Charles Cazabon wrote:

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No, it would mask your problem (`man band-aid`). The real solution is to configure your MTA to use an "acceptable" argument to the HELO command, or to tell it to forward your mail to your ISP's smarthost. This is possible with sendmail or any other MTA.

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Where do I 'configure my MTA to use an "acceptable" argument to the HELO COMMAND ??

If you're running qmail, it's set in the control file "helohost". If you're running sendmail, I haven't the foggiest idea, but it's probably buried somewhere in that 1000+ line monstrosity known as sendmail.cf.

So read the man page for whatever MTA you are using to find out what the name of the config file is, then you can issue the command (in my case for exim): cat /etc/exim/exim.conf |grep helo It will show you the line and what variable you need to be looking for. -- Knute I like greps. Especially the green ones! :) --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8iXfgxxogTq//zBwRAq8GAJ4g4y2KsOOuxvmmMPcWZV/p7L5ysgCeMC/+ jhvfF570mKWHQWBtWwi9eSg= =wvR9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc-- On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:57:05 -0500 zentara wrote:

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:10:52 -0800 Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

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Sorry for the cross-post, I also posted this on mutt-users.

I have sucessfully downloaded my mail using fetchmail/procmail into /home/jerry/muttmail/inbox. When I start up Mutt and tell it to read "/home/jerry/muttmail/inbox" mutt says "/home/jerry/muttmail/inbox" is not a mailbox. What's the matter here?

Maybe in the .muttrc you have "set mbox_type=mbox" look at "man mutrc" and search for 'mbox_type'. In case you didn't know, you can search a manpage by hitting /mbox_type

Procmail is probably delivering the mail in a different format.

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When I comment out "set mbox_type=mbox" line it still does the same thing. I think the problem is that the first line of the mail messages isn't "From:...." Why not? Here's the first four lines of the first message: Return-path: Received: from pop3.ispwest.com [216.52.245.18] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jerry@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 10 Mar 2002 14:21:08 -0800 (PST) Why is this? Thanks, Jerry On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:06:24 -0800 Ben Rosenberg wrote:

* Jerry Van Brimmer (jerryvb@ispwest.com) [020310 17:44]: ->I do have "set mbox_type=mbox" Isn't that what it's supposed to be? I have no->clue. I just started to use Mutt, I don't understand the different types of->mailboxes yet.

If your using modified versions of those config files I sent you..then I think maybe you should take the mbox reference out. I remember someone telling you to set it to mbox a bit ago..but this is unneeded. You shouldn't need to use mbox format...I don't.

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Do I have to re-download my email after changing to MH mbox_type? zentara wrote:

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:42:23 -0800 Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

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When I comment out "set mbox_type=mbox" line it still does the same thing. I think the problem is that the first line of the mail messages isn't "From:...." Why not? Here's the first four lines of the first message:

When you just comment out "set mbox_type=mbox" it just defaults back to mbox. Try "set mbox_type=MH"; I believe sendmail and procmail use MH by default. If that fails, try Maildir.

The MH format keeps each message in separate files identified by numbers. The mbox format puts all the mail into 1 file, separated by spaces, and the first line starting with From:

On Monday 11 March 2002 07:50 am, zentara wrote:

When you just comment out "set mbox_type=mbox" it just defaults back to mbox. Try "set mbox_type=MH"; I believe sendmail and procmail use MH by default. If that fails, try Maildir.

Actually, I think sendmail uses mbox by default. That's what it always delivered to here. I notice you're using Sylpheed, that mail program, unlike most other commonly used ones, uses the MH format. Mutt uses mbox. Maildir is a format that the Qmail MTA uses and is supported by many mail readers as an option but not a default. -- If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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What I have on my system is: ~/Mail # this is in the home directory, this dir I have reserved for Kmail ~/sylpheedmail # this is a dir that I set up for Sylpheed to use ~/muttmail # this is a directory I created for Mutt's mail, so it wouldn't interfere with other program's mail After I created ~/muttmail, I then edited the ~/.procmail.rc and the ~/.mutt.rc files to point to ~/muttmail. Then I configured ~/.fetchmail.rc to hand over the mail to procmail as the MDA. After running fetchmail as user jerry, a mail file called inbox was created in ~/muttmail. However, when I point Mutt to this file, it says "/home/jerry/muttmail/inbox" is not a mailbox. That's real strange to me since I can open the file with an editor and see the mail in it. I use Sylpheed because it's fast, configurable, and supports smtp authentication, which my isp requires. Jerry On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:26:40 -0500 zentara wrote:

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 06:21:59 -0500 Joshua Lee wrote:

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On Monday 11 March 2002 07:50 am, zentara wrote:

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When you just comment out "set mbox_type=mbox" it just defaults back to mbox. Try "set mbox_type=MH"; I believe sendmail and procmail use MH by default. If that fails, try Maildir.

Actually, I think sendmail uses mbox by default. That's what it always delivered to here. I notice you're using Sylpheed, that mail program, unlike most other commonly used ones, uses the MH format. Mutt uses mbox. Maildir is a format that the Qmail MTA uses and is supported by many mail readers as an option but not a default.

What I've seen in my experimentation with all these different mail programs is that they have the ability to auto-detect the mail format in use, and use the appropriate one--- as long as the format is properly setup. You are probably right that mbox is the generally accepted default. Maybe what caused the original poster's error with mbox, is that he made his inbox a directory, instead of a file. These are the kind of things which make people turn to all-in-one mailers like Sylpheed.

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On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:44 am, Sean Rima wrote:

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When you just comment out "set mbox_type=mbox" it just defaults back to mbox. Try "set mbox_type=MH"; I believe sendmail and procmail use MH by default. If that fails, try Maildir.

Actually, I think sendmail uses mbox by default. That's what it always delivered to here. I notice you're using Sylpheed, that mail program, unlike most other commonly used ones, uses the MH format. Mutt uses mbox. Maildir is a format that the Qmail MTA uses and is supported by many mail readers as an option but not a default.

Just out of curisoty, how are you delivering it to the mailbox, Procmail or Maildrop.

I am not currently using fetchmail and sendmail, as I am having problems getting sendmail to use port 25000. When I used them, I used procmail; and it indeed used the mbox format. I had used pine and mutt to read the messages. -- If this is timesharing, give me my share right now.

On Tuesday 12 March 2002 04:07 pm, Joshua Lee wrote:

I am not currently using fetchmail and sendmail, as I am having problems getting sendmail to use port 25000. When I used them, I used procmail; and

I think the problem was that another service, icl-twobase1, uses 25000 in /etc/services and changing the smtp line to be identical to another service in that file is being rejected. Will commenting this out cause any problems? (I assume then sendmail will work with it.)