On Sunday 08 July 2018 09.56:07 Gene Heskett wrote:

> fetchmail feeds procmail, who proceeds to check incoming for viri and
> spam, and sends several phony illegits to /dev/null, the spam gets
> graded by spamassassin but still comes into kmail by being placed
> in /var/mail/me. procmail can also generate other names depending on who
> its from.  Where mailwatcher comes into play is it launches an instance
> of inotifywait to watch /var/mail, returning the name of the file that
> the mail was written to when its closed. That triggers a dbus msg to
> kmail to go get the mail, and it relaunches another instance of
> inotifywait to replace the one that died returning the filename.

Well, I'll sound as a noob, but what exactly does this (to me) very 
complicated way of doing bring?

I mean, for 20 years almost I've been "simply" downloading my mail with kmail, 
using a few filters to post the messages to directories for clarity.

I used to run spam filters, but since i got modern and also read my mail on a 
smartphone I had to hire an external service for that.

Thierry



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Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?