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Re: losing mails



On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 01:45:17AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > You needn't consider the cur/new stuff in procmail. Simply say Maildir/
> > 
> This is something I was missing. My .procmailrc has only "Maildir" and not the
> trailing "/"

The trailing "/" is only necessary if the mailbox doesn't exist. If it
exists and it is a folder procmail uses maildir format. I am however
unsure what happens if "Maildir" is a folder and "Maildir/new" doesn't
exist.

> I also didn't have a default delivery. That could have been the reason for some
> mails disappearing. BTW, in no rule applies, where does procmail put those
> mails ?

/var/mail/<username> unless ORGMAIL or DEFAULT is set (man procmailrc).

michael

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