On Sunday 15 September 2002 12:43, MindFuq wrote:
# I finally got procmail working. I gave up on trying to run it on the
schools # computer, so I download it w/ fetchmail and run it locally.
#
# After procmail sorts through my mail and delivers it to different mailboxes
# (in the MBOX format), KMail 1.1.99 does not flag them as unread messages.
#
# Has anyone run into the same problem, w/ Kmail or anything else? I'm
willing # to switch mail readers if it's going to be a problem to correct it
w/ Kmail. # I would expect a mailreader that keeps track of the read
messages, rather # than the unread, would handle this better. I believe
Eudoramail works this # way, but it's Windows-ware.
#
# I know with mutt there's a way to specifically flag messages of interest,
but # that won't do. I wan't everything new to be colorcoded and counted. #
# I've been reading THE PROCMAIL COMPANION by Martin McCarthy, which is well
# written and concise. I recommend it to all beginners, and I also expect it
# to be a good reference once I'm experienced. However, I can't find
anything # on this notification issue in the book, and the archives don't
quite address # it either.
#
This is a kmail thing. The solution is to have procmail deliver to
/home/user/Mail/.file1, .file2..., etc., and then have kmail collect from
those files and put them into /home/user/Mail/file1, file2, etc. A lttle
cumbersome, but it works just fine.
--
Robin Lynn Frank
Paradigm-Omega, LLC
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