On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 09:16 -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
{snip}
What have I messed up?
wrong thing, wrong place. <wry grin>
MAILDIR is where your 'system' inbox is to be found (typically '/var/mail',
unless your're playing advanced games) (DEFAULT, if not expliitly set,
is usually, for mbox deliver, $MAILDIR/$USER)
DEFAULT is the path (for a -file-, if you're using 'mbox' type delivery)
where mail is delivered if you fall off the end of .procmailrc.
It is *NOT* 'prefixed' to explicit delivery file names in the action
"As specified", procmail will try to deliver to $HOME (or possibly the
current working directory in testbed runs), and subdirectories -under-
$HOME the action is 'dir/file'.
What you -probably- want to do is declare a variable, say 'DESTDIR'
that is absolute path to the directory where everything goes -- per
your example, it would be 'DESTDIR=$HOME/Proctest/Outfiles', and then
use '$DESTDIR/Mlist/file', for example, in the delivery action.
Hello and thanks for helping!
The $DESTDIR trick certainly works, but I am a little confused. In Sean
B Straw's example sandbox
(http://www.professional.org/procmail/sandbox.html) he states in the
comments:
# IMPORTANT: this dir is different from where your regular procmailrc
# would deliver messages. Your recipes should always avoid delivering to
# hard-coded paths - define directories using variables so that the paths
# can be changed external to the script.
MAILDIR=$HOME/.procmail/sandbox
This is why I set : MAILDIR=$HOME/Proctest in my sandbox.rc
I agree that DEFAULT should not really be relevant in this case. In
Sean's example sandbox he redefines DEFAULT to /dev/null because he is
not interested in messages that pass through the filters. In my case I
wanted to set it just so that I could see if something was happening (I
have since set it to /dev/null too).
Prior to my system crash I had often used Sean's sandbox for testing new
recipes. I never remember having to explicitly declare the delivery
destination before.
I am sure I have done something wrong - I just can't see it. In the
meantime I will continue to use the $DESTDIR trick in the recipes I am
testing.
Thanks again.
Mark
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