procmail question

[Robert Holtzman]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Linda wrote:

> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> 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/$user/new/new/
>>>
>>
>> You're right. Knowledge of maildir! I forgot that mailboxes are created
>> on the fly, at least they are in my Alpine app.
>>
>>
> I've tried all the suggestions but nothing is working. I have everything
> as simple as possible to try to get it working before I move forward. I
> suspect the problem is that maybe the .procmailrc is not really being
> consulted. At first I thought it must be since I could change from mbox
> to maildir. However it seems if /var/mail/$USER is there fetchmail
> places the messages in maildir form even without the .procmailrc in place
>
> Here is what I have for .fetchmailrc
>
> poll isp.address protocol POP3 user username with password userpassword
> mda "procmail -d username"
> fetchall

In my .fetchmailrc file I have:  mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f -" *with* the 
quotes.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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