This is a "single user" station. But along the time, I got various email accounts that I uses for various purpose.
I have been using Eudora at home and Entourage (previously Outlook) at works for years. They were usefull tools for handling multiple accounts, filtering and such. Entourage is more "User friendly". Eutora is light AND powefull. It has one limitation for me, not being able to have different port for different pop servers (I recently learned a trick to do it, but I am still in the process of changing).
For the following explanations, my local login is "fgranger" and my mail accounts will be "toto@altern.org", "toto@laposte.net" and "tata@laposte.net".
It is already available, so you just need to configure it. It will grab you mails and transfer them to a software wich will dispatch them locally. By default it will try to activate sendmail and if this fail, procmail.
In your folder, you need to create a file named ".fetchmailrc
".
To do this, use pico
.
This file contains:
#set syslog set daemon 600 set logfile /Users/fgranger/Mail/fetchmail.log set postmaster "fgranger" set no bouncemail set invisible set showdots defaults proto pop3 uidl # remove if invisible tracepolls keep mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" no rewrite poll pop.laposte.net user toto there with pass password is fgranger here user tata there with pass password is fgranger here poll altern.org interval 3 user pbarn there with pass password is fgranger here
I did not activated syslog
yet
I have fetxhmail running as a daemon evry 10 minutes
I keep a log file of it activities. When I double click this file in the Finder, it shows in Condole and this display updates dynamically.
I define some server defaults : defaults proto pop3 uidl
and some user default : keep mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" no rewrite
This direct invocation of procmail should not be needed if sendmail was never activated. But anyway, it makes things clearer (python coders say "Explicit is better than implicit").
Then for each server, I give it own parameters, then each account parameters.
It is already available, so you just need to configure it. If it does not exist yet, you have to create the /var/mail/fgranger
file. Just do :
touch /var/mail/fgranger
You must also create the Mail directory we will use in some rules.
cd
this puts you back in your home directory
mkdir Mail
In your folder, you need to create a file named ".procmailrc
".
To do this, use pico
.
This file contains:
SHELL=/bin/sh DEFAULT=/var/mail/fgranger LOGFILE=/Users/fgranger/procmail.log LOGABSTRACT=all MONTHFOLDER=`date +%y%m%d` :0Wic * ? test ! -d /Users/fgranger/Mail/$MONTHFOLDER | mkdir /User/fgranger/Mail/$MONTFOLDER :0c /Users/fgranger/Mail/${MONTHFOLDER}/. :0 fw | python /Volumes/OS99/spambayes/hammiefilter.py :0: $DEFAULT
First some variables definitions.
The MONTHFOLDER
is a trick I got from the net, I converted it to a day folder.
First rule is to create the daily folder.
Second rule is to keep a copy of each incoming mail in separate files in the dayly folder. It is kept in separate files because the path ends with "/.".
Third rule activate Spambayes scoring on each message "f" for filter "w" for waiting that it finishes.
Last rules store all mails in the "/var/mail/fgranger
" file with a lock to prevent concurent access.
Just download the ".dmg
". Drag & drop the unique file from the disque inside the Application
folder.
Setup:
Lauch GNUmail by double clicking it.
The key thing is in the Receiving preference. In the "Incoming
mail server
" area, click on the blue "+". In the "Server type
" pop-up choose UNIX
. Then click on the UNIX
tab. you should already have "/var/mail/fgranger
".
In GNUMail you create a filter:
GNUMail menu
Preferences...
Filtering
(the right most icon)
With the blue plus, you create a new rule. You name it. In the Criteria
area, you click on the To
pop up and go to Expert...
There, you enter the "X-Spambayes-Classification
" text in
the bottom of the screen and click OK. In the middle pop up menu, you
keep "Contains
", and in the right field, you enter "spam
".
Et voilˆ.
The latest version of MacSOUP allow multiple accounts. It installation is really straight forward.
Other possibilities.