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Subject: [OT] fetchmail, procmail and mutt (oh my!)
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Background:
When I travel, I use access a home server via ssh and deal with my email 
using console applications.  I obtain my email from several sources 
using fetchmail.  I have a .procmailrc file that properly puts the 
emails into specified mbox files -- so far so good.

Problem:
If I put 'mda /usr/local/bin/procmail' in the .fetchmailrc lines, 
procmail puts the emails in the correct mbox files; but mutt complains 
that the files are not valid email files and refuses to read them.

If I let fetchmail put the emails into my system mbox and use formail to 
process the emails, copies of the emails get put into the correct mbox 
files and mutt will open the files; but I have to go back and manually 
delete the emails in my system mail box.

How can I get both valid mbox files and without having to manually 
delete emails in my system folder?

Here's the top of .procmailrc and the freebsd recipe:

####################################
MAILDIR=/home/algould/pmail
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log
VERBOSE=1
DEFAULT=/home/algould/pmail/inbox

:0 :
* .*freebsd
/home/algould/pmail/freebsd
####################################

The other recipes differ only in criteria and mbox file name.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Andrew Gould