That's what it was, thanks. Chris Mason > The solution is trivial. While with your first example the storage > target was correct for Maildir storage: $HOME/Maildir/, which is > $HOME/Maildir from the MAILDIR variable definition at top and > with first > recipe adding the trailing slash to it (:0 \ $MAILDIR/). > Now where you changed the recipe from $MAILDIR/ to > $MAILDIR/.ChrisMail, > the trailing slash is missing. And this one is essential! It tells > procmail to store the mail in Maildir format and not, as it happened > where you claim the fault, in mbox format (msg.IIvS is an mbox file). > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.6 - Release Date: 12/5/2004