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Automatically retrieve received emails into Mail
Authored by: mweissen on Nov 29, '03 10:17:41AM

It means that you should (1) log onto the mail server or any Unix host with access to the mailbox, (2) configure it to pass all your incoming mail to the procmail program, then (3) configure procmail to signal your Mac over the network whenever an email comes in, then finally (4) configure your Mac to fetch all email whenever it gets this signal.

Very elegant, but difficult to set up, and if you make a mistake in the .forward or .procmailrc configuration files you can lose your incoming mail all too easily. Besides, it only works on mail servers where you have shell access (e.g. you can log in using SSH). As far as I know, Mac.com will *not* work.

Search Google for the keywords procmail tutorial, there are lots of web pages which tell how to set up procmail on a remote host.

--Martin



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