procmail question
Christopher Chan
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Mon Nov 17 00:15:40 UTC 2008
Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Christopher Chan wrote:
>
>> Linda wrote:
>>> Here is what I have in the procmailrc file so what am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>> # .procmailrc
>>> # routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes
>>> PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
>>> MAILDIR=/var/mail/$USER/
>>> Default=/var/mail/$USER/new/
>> DEFAULT should be /var/mail/$USER/
>>
>> Assuming procmail follows .procmailrc...
>
> Since .procmailrc states:
>
> # Messages that fall through all your procmail recipes are delivered
> # to your default INBOX. To find out yours, run 'procmail -v'
>
> I would assume that using /var/mail/$USER/ as default would assure mail
> never gets delivered to /var/mail/$USER/new/. What am I missing?
>
Knowledge of maildir? Setting DEFAULT to /var/mail/$user/new/ will make
procmail attempt to deliver to /var/mail/$user/new/new/
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