Re: Procmail recipes

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Friday 27 Jan 2006 21:58, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

Am Fr, den 27.01.2006 schrieb Anne Wilson um 22:17:

Hi, Alexander.  Thanks for replying.

1st note: wanting Maildir storage with Procmail you _must_ give the
target a path with a trailing slash. Without the trailing slash
Procmail will store in mbox format.

I started from there, but then read that it should not have one - much of the documentation around doesn't make it clear when it's dealing with mbox and when it's addressing maildir.

2nd note: using a variable the syntax is i.e. ${MAILDIR}

Sorry - typo when copying the output onto this box.

Every time, I get the message appended to a text file, as though it
was an mbox file, in ~/Maildir.

See above. 3 of your test syntax lines are wrong because of missing
trailing slash. The one with the trailing slash writes should have
written into directory "Design" as a maildir, though the path is not
the one you expect it to be; i.e. if you specified
"MAILDIR=/home/awilson/Mail/", then the result would have been
"/{/home/awilson/Mail/}Design".

Following should work as expected:

###

MAILDIR=/home/awilson/Mail/
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR

:0

* ^To:.*design@xxxxxxxxxxx
$MAILDIR/Design/

Hmm - I must still be missing something. Now I'm getting a mbox-style file called msg.fYY in ~/Maildir/.INBOX.Design - and of course the message doesn't show up in my folders. Here is the whole of the .procmailrc as it stands at the moment. Can you spot the pebcak? Thanks.

*****
#These assume that mail is already tagged on injection
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

#Set user variable
USER=`anne`

#Set user Inbox directory
MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR

#Set logfile
LOGFILE=/home/anne/pm.log
VERBOSE=YES
LOGABSTRACT=YES

LOG="
"

###For maildir, ensure that all recipe commands end with '/'###

# Create a safety net

:0 c
$MAILDIR/backup/

#Start real recipes

:0
* ^To:.*design@xxxxxxxxxxx
 $MAILDIR/Design/
*****

Anne

   :0
   * ^To:.*design@xxxxxxxxxxx
   ${MAILDIR}/Design/

...it should be...

   :0
   * ^To:.*design@xxxxxxxxxxx
   ${MAILDIR}/.INBOX.Design/new

Justin Willmert