Re: [exim] exim, fetchmail and procmail and bincimap

Hello p,

p cooper, 19.06.2006 (d.m.y):

> sorry to be so stupid
> How do i tell exim that procmail exists on this system

You need to create a procmail router and a corresponding transport.
Ask Google for examples. I'm sure you'll find lots on the Web.

> ( and more importantly why)

Because exim must know that local mails shall be handed over to
procmail.
...or that local mails shall be delivered to $HOME/maildir/whatever.

> I thought that www-> fetchmail->procmail and email client ->exim->www
> wouldnt need to communicate.

procmail is used for incoming mails only, so the second "interaction"
is not necessary.

> One receives mail and puts it in a maildir
> someone and the other receivesan SMTP connection and then send the mail
> somewhere

If you want to be able to send mails "locally" (from local user A to
local user B) you need to integrate procmail.

> would defining locally delivered mail to include local_domains work (cant
> see how or where though im afraid ?

You didn't get it: exim uses another place to store the locally
deliverd emails than your procmail configuration does.

Nevertheless, it's useful to tell exim about which domains to consider
as local_domains.

Regards,
Christian Schmidt

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