On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 09:39, T. Ribbrock wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:00:33AM -0500, Chris A Czerwinski wrote: > > [procmail receipe snipped] > > > Can this work with Evolution? Since you say 'man procmailex' tells me > > that this is a console/terminal command? How can I bring it or tie it to > > Evolution. > > I don't know whether you can tie something like this directly into > Evolution's setup, as I've never used Evolution. It might be possible, > if the filters that Evolution has are able to run external programs (in > this case 'formail') - but someone else would have to confirm that. > > Other than that, I'm using a fetchmail+procmail setup, i.e. fetchmail > fetches the mail via POP3 and delivers it via procmail (not directly, > but it's the default setup anyway, so I'll skip the details). Procmail > then filters the mail as I see fit. > Biggest advantage of this approach is that I'm completely free in what > mail program I want to use - the filters will always work. I also use > this to sort out mailing lists into separate folders. > The downside (yup, there is one...) is that it's a bit more difficult to > set up when you're new to fetchmail/procmail. With a bit of reading it's > doable, though. > > Cheerio, > > Thomas Thanks Thomas, Is that another reason you would want to receive mail in PLAIN TEXT and not HTML. What about attachments? Newbie Chris Cz
