Andre Konopka <andre(_dot_)konopka(_at_)presse-data(_dot_)de> writes:
I am using procmail 3.1.15 together with postfix and courier-imap.
Postfix uses procmail to deliver mail to the user (main.cf :
mailbox_command = /opt/procmail/bin/procmail)
I just tried to filter some of my mails on the server. Here are my very
simple recipe:
:0 H
* ^From:.*andre.konopka.*
.a/new
This moves the Mail to the directory /home/Maildir/.a/new
No problem, but how about the filename. It looks like
msg.IDQ
msg.MDQ
Without filtering the filenames looks like the following ones:
_zrE.RjlV8.hostname
_zF.xK2V8.hostname
Why are the generated names are so different?
Because you told procmail to deliver to a directory named ".a/new" instead
of a maildir folder named ".a". To quote the procmailrc(5) manpage:
Anything else will be taken as a mailbox name (either a
filename or a directory, absolute or relative to the cur-
rent directory (see MAILDIR)). If it is a (possibly yet
nonexistent) filename, the mail will be appended to it.
If it is a directory, the mail will be delivered to a
newly created, guaranteed to be unique file named $MSGPRE-
FIX* in the specified directory. ...
... If the mailbox name ends in "/", then this
directory is presumed to be a maildir folder; i.e., proc-
mail will deliver the message to a file in a subdirectory
named "tmp" and rename it to be inside a subdirectory
named "new".
...
So, the correct recipe would be:
:0
* ^From:.*andre.konopka
.a/
(The 'H' flag is the default. A trailing ".*" on a condition doesn't
change whether procmail matches, so unless you're using \/ and $MATCH,
it only slows procmail down.)
Philip Guenther
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