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Re: /Msgs directory vs just using /mail and not fwd email 2 pager

2002-01-14 00:55:38
On 12 Jan 2002 46ntwo(_at_)collegeclub(_dot_)com 
(46ntwo(_at_)collegeclub(_dot_)com) wrote:
1. Procmail is not sending the mail to a directory so that I
can view it in pine. Can i just reconfigure it to dump the
stuff in my /mail directory that pine uses or is there a way
that I can set it up so that I can see them in pine?

It sounds like whoever set you up used my Procmail Quick Start
(or an old version of it which was in the Filtering Mail FAQ). I
describe a method of combining the mailboxes that are in ~/mail
and ~/Msgs and soft linking (using `ln -s') these directories
here

 <http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/#multClients>

After you go through this procedure ~/mail and ~/Msgs will be the
same and you should see all the mailboxes in Pine (which uses
~/mail as the default local mailbox directory).

An alternative is to edit your .procamilrc so that instead of

 MAILDIR=$HOME/Msgs

it says

 MAILDIR=$HOME/mail


2. Procmail is supposed to forward some of my mail to my pager
so that I get the important stuff immediatley. This is not
happening. How can I fix it?
Here is an excerpt of the .rc file:
* ^Subject:.*An Important Thing Happened!
* ! ^X-Loop: me(_at_)server\(_dot_)domain(_dot_)net
{
  :0fwh
  | formail -A"X-Loop: me(_at_)domain(_dot_)com"
  :0c
  ! pager1(_at_)domain(_dot_)com
  :0 pager2(_at_)domain(_dot_)com
     IN.URGENT
  !
}

The line

  :0 pager2(_at_)domain(_dot_)com

doesn't make sense. I suggest that before you start editing your
procmail recipes, you read through my Procmail Quick Start (URL
in my sig) and learn the basics of Procmail, e.g., that the first
line of a recipe looks like

 :0 flags: lockfilename

Good luck!
Nancy

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Nancy McGough           <http://www.ii.com/>           Infinite Ink
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