How can all incoming emails be retained and copies are forwarded to gmail ?...

How can all incoming emails be retained and copies are forwarded to gmail ?...

[Don Saklad]

Thank you folks!  I'm grateful for the hints, tips and pointers.

What would be the more appropriate news groups or mailing lists for
more discussion of the now further ammended question... being

On a debian linux system how can all incoming emails be retained
and copies of all emails are forwarded to gmail ?... particulars
include

a.
How can the mail transfer agent be identified?... maybe exim?

b.
How would a nonprogrammer, dyslexic maybe, ADD maybe,
set it up on a debian linux system?...

c.
Ordinarily RMAIL in EMACS is used and from time to time mutt.

d.
Failed attempts at setting up an automatic file for spam that
can be looked over from time to time for any false positives.

e.
In emacs, difficulty filtering the spamassassin headers not being a
programmer. 

"Someday we'll have real computers and not have to know this stuff !"
--onr

Re: How can all incoming emails be retained and copies are forwarded to gmail ?...

[Bastien]

Hi Don,

Don Saklad <dsaklad@zurich.csail.mit.edu> writes:

> On a debian linux system how can all incoming emails be retained
> and copies of all emails are forwarded to gmail ?... particulars
> include

1. If you don't use fetchmail already, install it.  In a shell:

   ~$ sudo apt-get install fetchmail


2. If you don't use procmail already, install it.  In a shell:

   ~$ sudo apt-get install procmail


3. Setup fetchmail to fetch your emails and to filter them thru
   procmail.  Edit ~/.fetchmailrc like this:

   poll mail.server.org with proto POP3
      user 'your_address@gmail.com' there with password 'your_password' is your_username here fetchall
      mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d your_user_name"

   Of course you have to replace mail.server.org, your_user_name and
   your_password with relevant values.
   
4. Edit ~/.procmailrc with this minimal setup:

   :0 c
   ! your_address@gmail.com

That's it.  You have told fetchmail to fetch your emails, to filter them
through procmail and procmail will send a copy to your gmail account.

> How can the mail transfer agent be identified?... maybe exim?

You don't really need to know this.

> How would a nonprogrammer, dyslexic maybe, ADD maybe,
> set it up on a debian linux system?...

~$ man fetchmail
~$ man procmail
~$ man procmailex

... and good will. 

> In emacs, difficulty filtering the spamassassin headers not being a
> programmer.

First solve the first problems, then this one.  

> "Someday we'll have real computers and not have to know this stuff !"

Trying to put a computer in slavery is the best way to stay a computer's
slave.  Learn computers, they will cooperate.

HTH,

-- 
Bastien

Re: How can all incoming emails be retained and copies are forwarded to gmail ?...

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.03.2008 um 12:44 schrieb Don Saklad:

> a.
> How can the mail transfer agent be identified?


The header line "User-Agent" contains this information.

--
Greetings

   Pete

It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.
				– Garfield

Re: How can all incoming emails be retained and copies are forwarded to gmail ?...

[Bastien]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 06.03.2008 um 12:44 schrieb Don Saklad:
>
>> How can the mail transfer agent be identified?
>
> The header line "User-Agent" contains this information.

No, User-agent tells you about the Mail user agent (MUA).  
The OP was asking about the Mail transfert agent (MTA) on his machine.  

-- 
Bastien