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Re: Help with Procmail configuration



On Sun, Feb 28, 1999 at 08:20:30AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:

> I am running fetchmail and procmail to get my mail off of a ppp.  I am a
> single user and I wish for my mail to go into a global directory I setup
> for mail '/Mail.and.New/Mail/Inbox'.  In the procmailrc I setup the
> following variables:
> 
> MAILDIR = /Mail.and.News/Mail
> LOGFILE = _logfile
> VERBOSE = yes
> LOGABSTRACT = no
> PATH =
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin/mh
> DEFAULT=/Mail.and.News/Mail/Inbox
> #ORGMAIL=/Mail.and.News/Mail/Inbox

Have you set up your permitions correctly to write to /Mail.and.News?

Anyway, being single user or not, why don't you use a dir in you home
directory? Try this :

MAILDIR = $HOME/Mail.and.News/Mail
LOGFILE = $HOME/_logfile
DEFAULT = $HOME/Mail.and.News/Mail

Pedro Guerreiro
-- 
Diplomacy: the art of letting someone have your own way.



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