Re: [exim] How to get mail "delivered" to a file (in mbox fo…

In the old days (yes I am a dinosaur) the editors would show you the bytes
in a file... now adays they lie and I've unfortunately made assumptions
about what the lies are (I feel like telling someone to get off my lawn).
A hex editor has lead me to belive that all this jazz concerning "mboxo"
format is nothing I need to worry about in sofar as the prepending of '>'
to 'From' is concerned. My first step should be to get mail "delivered" to
a file. Sorry for the confusion...


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:39 PM, visaris tds.net <visaris@???> wrote:

> I use gentoo. I emerged exim and fetchmail. Fetchmail evidently gets
> mail to my satisfaction, and hands it off to exim. I say this, because
> /var/spool/exim/input is stuffed full of messages, courtesy of exim.
>
> I once read email with emacs (M-x rmail), but that nolonger works. The
> reason I suppose is that emacs needs mail in mbox format, and although
> mail is sitting in /var/spool/exim/input, nevertheless it has not been
> "delivered" to the proper place in an acceptable format.
>
> I don't know what the proper place is, but One Step At A Time. First,
> I'ld like to get mail "delivered" to some file (I don't care which) in
> mbox format. I have stumbled across information that mbox is *not* an
> unambiguous format, and what I ought to perfer is "mboxo". In case it
> is not part of what exim does, I'ld settle for having mail "delivered"
> to a file as a first step, in some format that is not maildir -- emacs
> chokes on maildir, or so I've heard. If that is not part of what exim
> does, then I'ld like to get mail "delivered" to some file, any file.
>
> I don't know what "delivered" means, but have been given to understand
> that it is something I need, and mail sitting in /var/spool/exim/input
> is somehow not good enough.
>
> I suppose getting mail "delivered" needs configuration properly setup.
> How? Next, some executable needs to be invoked. How?
>
> Advice such as found In Chapter 3, section 13. "Delivery in detail" is
> not sufficiently explicit. I need help at a much lower level like for
> instance: "the following lines go in the following configuration file"
> or "make the following a cron job".
>
> Thanks.
>
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