All,
I recently Installed Qmail and Courier IMAP and am having problems using
procmail. It does not seem to do anything :<
I have a single rule right now: place a copy of all incoming email in
.procmail-backup . No log file is created or written to, no action seems to
occur at all -- except that email is delivered to ~/Maildir as needed.
What I'm looking for is a step by step explanation of what I need to do so I
get messages delivered to the correct maildir. NB: Courier uses "\.$FOLDER
NAME" as in ".mailing_lists.procmail.2001.q1" for this list where
".mailing_lists.procmail.2001.q1" is physically located at
"/home/samstern/Maildir/.mailing_lists.procmail.2001.q1/"
I've tried various permutations of ".procmail-backup" , "\.procmail-backup"
, ".procmail-backup/" , "\.procmail-backup/" , "procmail-backup" , and
"procmail-backup/" and I can't get any logging to occur and I cannot get
messages delivered anywhere but INBOX (/home/samstern/Maildir/new). I'm at a
loss.
Any hints, Tips, RTFM's (which FM????) welcome! Flames for being a newbie
/dev/null
Sam Stern
Bethesda, MD, USA
--- Various files and directories
Here's how I start procmail:
qmail-lspawn |preline procmail ./Maildir
I don't have a global procmalrc but here is my "personal" .procmailrc
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ #you'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR #completely optional
LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail/procmail.log #recommended
ORGMAIL=$MAILDIR
VERBOSE=ON
LOGABSTRACT=all
COMSAT=NO
SHELL=/bin/sh
# the intent of the rule is to deliver a copy of all messages to
~/Maildir/.procmail-backup/cur
# This is a testing failsafe before I write a real rule set
:0 c
.procmail-backup
Here's my home directory:
$ ls -al
total 25044
drwxr-xr-x 5 samstern samstern 512 Mar 4 16:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Feb 15 09:34 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 samstern samstern 769 Jan 14 16:15 .cshrc
-rw------- 1 samstern samstern 210 Feb 21 00:20 .ispell_default
-rw-r--r-- 1 samstern samstern 318 Jan 14 16:15 .login
-rw-r--r-- 1 samstern samstern 105 Jan 14 16:15 .mailrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 samstern samstern 38 Feb 14 23:19 .muttrc~
-rw-r--r-- 1 samstern samstern 304 Mar 5 07:39 .procmailrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 samstern samstern 201 Jan 14 16:15 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 samstern samstern 11 Feb 14 19:48 .qmail
-rw------- 1 samstern samstern 83 Feb 16 20:48 .rhosts
-rw------- 1 samstern samstern 65 Jan 14 16:15 .rhosts~
drwxr-xr-x 6 samstern samstern 512 Feb 22 15:40 Mail-Bak
drwx------ 176 samstern samstern 7168 Mar 5 13:17 Maildir
-rw-r--r-- 1 samstern samstern 77086 Feb 19 22:10 Muttrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 samstern samstern 12707840 Mar 1 06:22
heimdal-0.3e.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 samstern samstern 540 Mar 4 16:32 message.mime
drwxr-xr-x 2 samstern samstern 512 Mar 4 15:42 procmail
a snippit of ~/Maildir
drwx------ 176 samstern samstern 7168 Mar 5 13:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 samstern samstern 512 Mar 4 16:36 ..
drwx------ 5 samstern samstern 512 Mar 4 14:31 .procmail-backup
drwx------ 2 samstern samstern 30720 Mar 5 13:17 cur
drwx------ 2 samstern samstern 512 Mar 5 13:21 new
drwx------ 5 samstern samstern 512 Feb 16 20:52 spb
drwx------ 2 samstern samstern 512 Mar 5 13:21 tmp
a snippit of ~/Maildir/.procmail-backup
drwx------ 5 samstern samstern 512 Mar 4 14:31 .
drwx------ 176 samstern samstern 7168 Mar 5 13:17 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 samstern samstern 14 Mar 4 14:31 courierimapuiddb
-rw------- 1 samstern samstern 0 Mar 4 14:31 courierimapuiddb.lock
drwx------ 2 samstern samstern 512 Mar 4 14:27 cur
drwx------ 2 samstern samstern 512 Mar 4 14:27 new
drwx------ 2 samstern samstern 512 Mar 4 14:27 tmp
here's ~/procmail (my log directory, I used "touch procmail.log" hoping that
that would start logging
drwxr-xr-x 2 samstern samstern 512 Mar 4 15:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 samstern samstern 512 Mar 4 16:36 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 samstern samstern 0 Mar 4 15:42 procmail.log
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