TjL:
Michael J Wise:
TjL:
I wish to compile my own version which will use Maildir not mbox as
default
and dump to ~/Maildir/ if anything goes wrong.
Put something like this at the top of your .procmailrc file:
DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
i've done that but I'm worried that it will still fall back to
/var/mail/ if there's an error, as opposed to giving a temp error
delivery code.
See also ORGMAIL in procmailrc(5):
ORGMAIL /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
Usually the system mailbox (ORiGinal MAILbox). If, for
some obscure reason (like `filesystem full') the mail could
not be delivered, then this mailbox will be the last
resort. If procmail fails to save the mail in here (deep,
deep trouble :-), then the mail will bounce back to the
sender.
So start your .procmailrc with
ORGMAIL = "$HOME/Maildir/"
DEFAULT = $ORGMAIL
or maybe better with
ORGMAIL = "$HOME/mailproblems"
DEFAULT = "$HOME/Maildir/"
or
ORGMAIL = "/tmp/$HOME_mailproblems"
DEFAULT = "$HOME/Maildir/"
and let an external process look for that mbox and call you when it
appears.
--
Grtz, Ruud
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