Re: Another stupid question
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:09:20PM -0500, tps@unslept.com wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:14:03PM -0500, Bob Billson wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 07:20:11PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
> > > OK, I'm number than I thought. I see nothing but a mere mention of
> > > maildir in one or two spots. Can you give a little more obvious pointer?
> >
> > hrmm... You're right. I can't find it either. It used to be there.
> > That's where I found out how to do it.
> >
> > Well, here is a relevant snippet from my exim.conf. It should help get
> > you going. Note I deliver mail on my machine to the directory
> > /home/$USER/Maildir rather than the *directory* /var/mail/$USER. Either
> > way, you *also* need to create three subdirs: new, cur, and tmp, e.g.
> >
> > mkdir /home/$USER/Maildir/{new,cur,tmp}
> >
> > Without them, mail won't get delivered. I found that out the hard way. :)
> > Hope this helps. If not, give a yell.
>
>
> YEEEELLLLLL! :) I think my problem is in procmail. I had almost exactly
> what you had. Looking at the exim logs, everything is going through
> the procmail_pipe since I have a very extensive .procmailrc . I'll have to
> figure out how to make procmail behave with maildir.
OK, I have it figured out. You have to have
DEFAULT = $HOME/Maildir
in either your /etc/procmailrc (for systemwide delivery) or in your
private .procmailrc for just you.
If you are using Mutt for a local mailreader, you need to add
set mbox_type=Maildir
in your .muttrc .
Now, the interesting thing about mutt is, it looks liks this:
1190 O Mar 15 Jones, Susan M ( 19) after work get-together for Bill
1191 N F Mar 16 To Tim Sailer ( 0) test mail
notice that message 1190 hsa 19 lines and 1191 shows 0 lines, although
it has 10. The 1190 was from the mbox2mdir conversion, the new ones all
show up as 0 lines
Tim
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