procmail, qmail, maildirs etc

Hi,

I'm running qmail 1.03 with maildirs in $HOME/Maildir/, and i'm trying to use 
procmail with it.
I built procmail-3.14 from source, but I can't find any documents on how to 
configure it to use
the qmail+maildir peculiarities. The closest I got was this, in config.h:

/* This usually allowed you to define SYSTEM_MBOX.  This has changed.
   If you want mail delivery to custom mail-spool-files, edit the
   src/authenticate.c file and change the content of:  auth_mailboxname()
   (either directly, or through changing the definitions in the same file
   of MAILSPOOLDIR, MAILSPOOLHASH or MAILSPOOLHOME) */

I looked up src/authenticate.c, and was greeted with:

#ifndef MAILSPOOLDIR
#define MAILSPOOLDIR    "/var/spool/mail/"           /* watch the trailing / */
#endif
#ifndef MAILSPOOLHASH
#define MAILSPOOLHASH   0      /* 2 would deliver to /var/spool/mail/b/a/bar */
#endif
/*#define MAILSPOOLHOME "/.mail"                      /* watch the leading / */
                                                  /* delivers to $HOME/.mail */

and further down....


const char*auth_mailboxname(pass)auth_identity*const pass;
{ if(!pass->mbox)
#ifdef MAILSPOOLHOME
   { static const char mailfile[]=MAILSPOOLHOME;size_t i;
     if(!(pass->mbox=malloc((i=strlen(pass->pw->pw_dir))+STRLEN(mailfile)+1)))
        return "";
     strcpy(pass->mbox,pass->pw->pw_dir);
     strcpy(pass->mbox+i,mailfile);
#else
   { static const char mailspooldir[]=MAILSPOOLDIR;
     if(!(pass->mbox=malloc(
      STRLEN(mailspooldir)+MAILSPOOLHASH*2+strlen(pass->pw->pw_name)+1)))
        return "";
     strcpy(pass->mbox,mailspooldir);
     ;{ char*p,*n;size_t i;int c;
        for(p=pass->mbox+STRLEN(mailspooldir),n=pass->pw->pw_name,
         i=MAILSPOOLHASH;i--;*p++='/')
         { if(*n)
              c= *n++;
           *p++=c;
         }
        strcpy(p,pass->pw->pw_name);
      }
#endif /* MAILSPOOLHOME */
   }
  return pass->mbox;
}


I don't know how to code, so this is all random blah to me. Do I uncomment out 
the #define MAILSPOOLHOME,
and change it to "$HOME/Maildir/"? Do i need to comment out one of the other 
defines? I'm completely at a
loss. Once it's compiled, I'll let my users call it from .qmail with "| preline 
procmail", but before I do
that I want to make sure it's all set up properly. In the past (before I was 
using maildirs, but still with
qmail) I've had dubious looking syslogs from procmail, complaining about 
/var/mail/spool etc...

Recently, I compiled and installed procmail without making any changed to any 
files, and that worked fine
until i tried to filter my old mail with this command:

$ formail -ns procmail .procmailrc < TOSORT

and it returned:

procmail: Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/ian"
procmail: Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/ian"

lots of times.until i hit ctrl-c.

for completeness. heres my .procmailrc

VERBOSE=off
SHELL=/bin/sh
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
ORGMAIL=$HOME/Maildir/
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
#INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.testing
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.reflex


I'm sure this is straightforward to fix, but rather than guess it (like i've 
done before) I'd like to make
sure it's all proper.


Thanks for your time.


ian
-- 
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provide
[http://www.darq.net/]                   i am the hate you try to hide

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