On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Colin Watson wrote: <snip> > If you don't create a directory called $HOME/mail/debian-user, then > procmail will automatically save mail to an mbox by that name. If > there's a directory there, it'll default to a maildir (erm, as in the > mailbox format, as distinct from $MAILDIR). B-I-N-G-O! I made $HOME/mail/<name>, thus maildir. so I did: cat msg.* > new_mbox I seem to have overlooked that little detail. -Kevin