<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Linda <<a href="mailto:haniganwork@earthlink.net">haniganwork@earthlink.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"> > > You're right. Knowledge of maildir! I forgot that mailboxes are created > on the fly, at least they are in my Alpine app. > > </div>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 coduld 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 So is something in this the cause of the problem?</blockquote><div> I haven't had to work directly with procmail in years. The hints I would give you are: - Consider using maildrop. While I haven't used myself, it seems like a reasonable alternative to procmail's madness. - Use fetchmail's logging ("--logfile <filename> ") to discover what is going on with fetchmail. If using procmail: - Do create the maildir sub-dirs yourself, the person who said these are created for you seemed to be talking about *Alpine*. AFAIK procmail does not create the maildir sub-dirs. - Check the permissions of the .procmailrc file, if the file is deemed insecure, it won't be used. - Go to this page: <a href="http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html">http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html</a> this is the best page of procmail tips there is. There you'll find a shell script to test your procmailrc file <a href="http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html#testbench">http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html#testbench</a> if you are really going to use procmail, you'll need something like this. </div></div> - Get procmail to log what it does as well. Timo's page should show you how to do that. HTH, -- Francisco