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Re: does procmail always use ~/.procmail

2008-12-10 01:17:24
On 8-Dec-2008, at 14:16, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2008-12-08 08:03:32, schrieb LuKreme:
If it does not exist the message is not saved to it. This allows
people who wsnt spam in a seperate folder to have it without forcing
that on everyone.

This is NOT right, because if someone EMPTY its spamfolder, it is automaticaly removed, which mean, the next time SPAM arrives it is not
more saved to the folder a user expect...

Empty mailboxes are not removed. Someone would have to actaully DELETE the mailbox. not merely empty it.

In fact, it will fail if Mail does not exist, which is quite common
since user's inboxes are in /var/mail/

Not realy, since ~/Mail or ~/Maildir/{tmp,cur,new} are normaly installed through /etc/skel/ by the sysadmin and IF the sysadmin consider to install courier-imap and the USERS have SHELL access, mostly the Sysadmin install ~/Maildir/ which is the default location for courier
since coirier can not handel "mailbox" under /var/mail/.

I am the sysadmin. user mailboxes (Inboxes) are in /var/mail/ and ~/ Mail/ is only created if the user (or someone) creates an additional mailbox.

Well, at least for those few accounts with local delivery. Other accounts (mysql/postfix-admin) use a different procmailrc file.

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