On 31-Mar-2009, at 14:22, James Butler wrote:
Procmail insists on going further by adding a nest of unused
directories
within that active Maildir:
/home/user/Maildir/user = 700 <= nothing but Maildir in it
/home/user/Maildir/user/Maildir = 700 <= nothing but empty directories
/home/user/Maildir/user/Maildir/cur = 700 <= has no mail in it
/home/user/Maildir/user/Maildir/new = 700 <= has no mail in it
/home/user/Maildir/user/Maildir/tmp = 700 <= has no mail in it
/home/user on down are owned by user:USERGROUP.
This structure is very much like the output from 'procmail -v':
"Your system mailbox: $HOME/Maildir/user"
so procmail has the wrong system mailbox setting since the system
mailbox should be $HOME/Maildir/ and not $HOME/Maildir/user.
You compiled this procmail, right?
you changed the value in both config.h and autoconf.h?
3) config.h:
#define DEFmaildir "$HOME/Maildir"
4) autoconf.h:
#define MAILSPOOLDIR "$HOME/Maildir/"
Why does one have a terminal slash and the other doesn't? Not that it
matters, as I recall config.h is an OVERRIDE of autoconf.h. And
pretty sure the absolute path needs a terminal /
OTOH, I went in and looked at config.h. Did you read config.h?
/* This file previously allowed you to define SYSTEM_MBOX. This has
changed. If you want mail delivery to custom mail-spool-files,
edit the
src/authenticate.c file and change the content of:
auth_mailboxname()
(either directly, or through changing the definitions in the same
file
of MAILSPOOLDIR, MAILSPOOLSUFFIX, MAILSPOOLHASH or MAILSPOOLHOME) */
authenticate.c:
#ifndef MAILSPOOLDIR
#define MAILSPOOLDIR "/var/spool/mail/" /* watch the
trailing / */
#endif
#ifndef MAILSPOOLSUFFIX
#define MAILSPOOLSUFFIX "" /* suffix to force maildir or MH
style */
#endif
#ifndef MAILSPOOLHASH
#define MAILSPOOLHASH 0 /* 2 would deliver to /var/spool/mail/b/
a/bar */
#endif
/*#define MAILSPOOLHOME "/.mail" /* watch the
leading / */
So, I would try a compile with the following:
#ifndef MAILSPOOLDIR
#define MAILSPOOLDIR "$HOME/Maildir/" /* watch the
trailing / */
#endif
#ifndef MAILSPOOLSUFFIX
#define MAILSPOOLSUFFIX "/" /* suffix to force maildir or
MH style */
#endif
#ifndef MAILSPOOLHASH
#define MAILSPOOLHASH 0 /* 2 would deliver to /var/spool/mail/b/
a/bar */
#endif
and see if that works.
--
I don't believe there's a power in the 'verse can stop
Kaylee from bein' cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna
duct-tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.
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