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
