procmail question

[Robert Holtzman]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Christopher Chan wrote:

> 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/

You're right. Knowledge of maildir! I forgot that mailboxes are created 
on the fly, at least they are in my Alpine app.

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Bob Holtzman
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