How do you read your email? Do you have a mailbox at your ISP, and read directly from the server via IMAP? Do you have an intermediate mailbox at your ISP, and then download from there via fetchmail, or some other POP3 mail client? Or do you use stone knives and bear skins (i.e. UUCP)?
The short answer: I read it out of the spool directory (direct/personal mail) or the folders where Procmail sorts it (mailing lists, LJ messages, etc.) using /usr/bin/mailx or Mutt on both systems; on my ISP .forward clones a copy (before Procmail filtering/sorting) to a file where a cron script on one of my home machines snatches it via FTP.
The long answer: I'm not entirely certain in what order the system procmailrc and my .forward file are applied; I just know that my personal .procmailrc is applied last. In any case, I'm using old-tech tools and not IMAP or POP. But not quite as old as UUCP.
How does your mail work?
Re: How does your mail work?
The long answer: I'm not entirely certain in what order the system procmailrc and my .forward file are applied; I just know that my personal .procmailrc is applied last. In any case, I'm using old-tech tools and not IMAP or POP. But not quite as old as UUCP.