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On Tue, 01 Jun 1999 17:15:50 +0100, David Hallowell
<david.hallowell@ukuug.org> wrote:

>Simon Thompson wrote:
>> 
>> Does anyone know how/if it is possible to only download mail based on
>> a header such as the From: field?
>>
>> poll pop3.demon.co.uk protocol SDPS username simon@tyrant password xxx
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>You'll need to use procmail (in addition to fetchmail and sendmail which
>you already have) to filter the mail on the conditions that you specify.
>See the procmail man page for more information on this.
It looks like I will be able to filter it correctly with procmail, but
how do I run procmail in conjunction with fetchmail to download only
the headers specified by the procmail recipe? I thought that this
functionality would have to be in fetchmail itself, otherwise it will
just download everything for simon@tyrant before procmail gets a look
at it.

>To dial in periorically just use cron to schedule a job to dial in (say)
>every hour to connect to the internet and run fetchmail. 
That's what I was thinking, thanks.

Regards

Simon