[TriLUG] help with procmail/postfix

[Tom Woods]

Right, NewTest was put in ~/mail...  I guess for now I'll just use the
full path.  If I use MAILDIR=$HOME/mail, it seems to me that it would
effectively move the location of my inbox out of /var/spool/mail/twoods...
right?

> Perhaps it put "NewTest" in your home directory instead of in the 'mail'
>  subdirectory?  I don't know what the default is.   You can put
> 	MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
> at the top of the procmailrc to avoid using the full path like that.
>
> --Jeremy
>
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Tom Woods wrote:
>
>> Thanks!  I'm yet another step closer.  I duplicated the recipe you
>> posted, with locking.  The email arrived, but simply disappeared.
>> procmail.log showed the following:
>>
>> From thomaswoods at earthlink.net  Tue Jul 29 18:23:48 2003
>>  Subject: testnewprocrc
>>   Folder: /var/spool/mail/twoods
>>
>> 1006
>> From thomaswoods at earthlink.net  Tue Jul 29 18:24:31 2003
>>  Subject: Test Folder
>>   Folder: NewTest
>> 1004
>>
>> I did get it to work, but what I had to do to make it work is the
>> following:
>>
>> :0:
>> * ^Subject: Test Folder
>> /home/twoods/mail/NewTest
>>
>> I'm wondering if it's normal to need the full path like this, or maybe
>> I have something misconfigured?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 08:59, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:33, Tom Woods wrote:
>> >> > Thanks for the global procmail suggestion, however I've actually
>> >> tried that as well.
>> >> >
>> >> > I've posted the files at:
>> >> >
>> >> > http://www.familyfunnies.com/main.cf
>> >> > http://www.familyfunnies.com/.procmailrc
>> >>
>> >> Do you have the $DELIVERTO macro defined?
>> >> That's a special variable that is setup on the TriLUG servers.  In
>> that case, it expands to a program called "dmail" (or actually, a
>> patched version called "dmail-trilug") that delivers to the IMAP
>> folders.
>> >>
>> >> If you don't have the specialized MBX setup that we're using on
>> TriLUG, just leave off the $DELIVERTO part and put the name of the
>> folder.  Procmail will just deliver locally to the folder in mbox
>> format.
>> >
>> > To clarify, you'd leave off both the pipe character and the
>> $DELIVERTO. A more standard procmail recipe looks like this:
>> >
>> > :0
>> > * ^Subject: Test Folder
>> > NewTest
>> >
>> > In actuality, you will want to enable locking, so that multiple
>> programs (or multiple instances of procmail) won't try to write to
>> the "NewTest" foler at once.  This is done by adding a colon after
>> the zero, so the recipe will look like:
>> >
>> > :0:
>> > * ^Subject: Test Folder
>> > NewTest
>> >
>> > Enabling locking is pretty necessary when you're using the standard
>> 'mbox' format.  For other formats like Maildir or MBX, it's not
>> necessary, at least from what I've heard.  (Locking doesn't make
>> sense in the TriLUG setup because we're actually piping the mail
>> through a program -- the $DELIVERTO program which is "dmail" --
>> instead of having procmail deliver the mail itself.)
>> >
>> > Hope this helps,
>> > Jeremy
>> >
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