Re: mutt procmail NEWBIE
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 06:08:27AM -0900, jerry wrote:
> > However able to get the mail delivered where I want to, Mutt complains that the destination box (spoolfile) is not a mail box.
> > I don't have a clue as to where I must look. The documentation of procmail/mutt requires expert-insight; no easy "looks like this" examples (well it does, but it don't work for me). Also the mutt and procmail webpages for Newbies gave me an impression of what is possible, impressive by the way, but I could not get a configuration out of it.
> >
>
> I've had these problems as well. The documentation that I looked at
> didn't mention how to fix the problem with the error 'is not a mail
> box'.
>
> >
> > .forward #Found the second option on internet...
> > ##########
> > #'| /usr/bin/procmail'
> > "| /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #mail"
> >
> >
> I also had a .forward file, seems mutt will ( in debian) work
> without this file. I have since deleted it.
I will be renaming it first. Thanks
> > .fetchmailrc #This seems to work....
>
> > ##############
> > set postmaster "mail"
>
> May want to set this as your login user name, so you recieve any
> mail generated by the system
Done
> > set nobouncemail
> > set no spambounce
> > set properties ""
> > poll mail.local.inet with proto POP3
> > user 'henkie@local.inet' there with password 'Sure' is 'otheruser' hereoptions fetchall no rewrite stripcr
> > mda '/usr/bin/procmail'
> >
>
> I also had the mda line as well in my .muttrc, I think this may have
> been the culprit causing the error with the mailbox not being recognized
> as being a mailbox, don't know for sure, but it's not commented out
> and seems to work fine.
Now I'm not sure; You use this in your .muttrc? or in your .muttrc AND your .fetchmailrc?
> > ############################################################
> > .procmailrc #Cleaned it up a bit
> > #############
> > MAILDIR=/home/snotty/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists
> > DEFAULT=${MAILDIR}/inbox #completely optional
> > LOGFILE=${MAILDIR}/procmail.log #recommended
> > SCHADUW=${MAILDIR}/schaduw
> >
>
> I'm not to sure about the braces surrounding the MAILDIR above, I
> don't have those in my .procmailrc
Those are optional I guess:-). They come from a link of www.procmail.org
But then again they don't help either.
> > set mbox_type = Maildir
I fixed this after reading from Morten Bo Johansen that this should be mbox (well; easy way should be).
> > mailboxes !
> > #mailboxes /var/mail/snotty
> > #mailboxes /home/snotty/mail/inbox
> > mailboxes /home/snotty/Mail/read
> > #mailboxes /home/snotty/Mail/procmail.log
>
> /home/snotty/Mail/procmail.log is not a mail box, you can remove
> this
Commenting out does not work?
> > mailboxes /home/snotty/Mail/schaduw
> This appears to be where you want the mail from rule #3 to end up,
> if so, I think, schaduw, needs to be changed, either in the rules or
> this line, they need to be the same
Are you sure? SCHADUW=${MAILDIR}/schaduw does say it's in /home/snotty/Mail/schaduw??
############################################################
.procmailrc #Cleaned it up a bit
#############
MAILDIR=/home/snotty/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=${MAILDIR}/inbox #completely optional
LOGFILE=${MAILDIR}/procmail.log #recommended
SCHADUW=${MAILDIR}/schaduw
.....
:0:
* ^Reply-To: .*@topica.com
$SCHADUW
:0:
* ^From: .*@topica.com
$SCHADUW
....
> No problem, hope this help get your mail sorted
> jerry
Almost there
Thanks again!
Frans
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