From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 26 15:19:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF526106566C for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:19:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikel.king@olivent.com) Received: from mail.olivent.com (mail.olivent.com [75.99.82.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 342108FC15 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.olivent.com (Kerio Connect 7.0.0 patch 1) (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES128-SHA (128 bits)); Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:19:24 -0400 References: <201003261511.o2QFBU3c084753@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Message-Id: From: mikel king To: Martin McCormick In-Reply-To: <201003261511.o2QFBU3c084753@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:19:26 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: popd to send Mail to a Mac; I Really Appreciate this list. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:19:36 -0000 On Mar 26, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > It looks like imap is more suitable for what I am trying > to do than pop. There may be a slight issue in the fact that I > use .forward to trigger procmail which has the effect of > instantly snatching up every piece of incoming mail and putting > it in to a nmh folder that resides in /home/%user/Mail/%folder > which means /var/mail is always empty. I just created another > user which won't have any .forward or procmail attention. > Forwarding messages to this user will make them hang in > /var/mail/%user and those should be available to imap. > > On the Mac, I will be reading that user's mail via imap > to retrieve the messages. > > Martin McCormick You should be able to subscribe to the folder in question directly under IMAP for the specific account. I used to do this all the time. It really depend on how you roll out your IMAP service, and which one you go with. Either way procmail can filter can sort the message into IMAP folders so that you can just pick them up via an IMAP client. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court, Medford, NY 11763 o: 631.627.3055 c: 631.796.1499 skype:mikel.king http://olivent.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelking http://twitter.com/mikelking