Re: [Nmh-workers] Question about slocal

[Earl Hood]

On August 1, 2003 at 00:38, Bill Wohler wrote:

> Matthew Burke <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I want to run nmh on my laptop but I don't have an MTA installed.
> > Using inc to get email from my two POP accounts works just fine but I
> > would prefer to run everything through slocal so that I can filter it.
> > Is there a way to do this without installing an MTA and then using
> > something like fetchmail to grab from the POP accounts?
> 
> While it's not what you're asking, I've installed sendmail, postfix, and
> (the Debian default of) exim. The last was the easiest. And it makes
> fetchmail and procmail possible without much pain at all. So, I think
> the answer to your question is no, but I don't think the alternative is
> as bad as you think.

You should be able to use fetchmail with procmail.  Fetchmail has
the -m option to specify a delivery agent to use instead of forwarding
the messages to an SMTP host.  For example:

  fetchmail -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"

I would guess it is possible to have fetchmail invoke slocal
directly:

  fetchmail -m "/usr/lib/nmh/slocal -addr %T -sender %F"

But I would try things out first.

--ewh