Procmail recipes

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 27 Jan 2006 21:58, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 27.01.2006 schrieb Anne Wilson um 22:17:
Hi, Alexander.  Thanks for replying.

>
> 1st note: wanting Maildir storage with Procmail you _must_ give the
> target a path with a trailing slash. Without the trailing slash
> Procmail will store in mbox format.
>
I started from there, but then read that it should not have one - much 
of the documentation around doesn't make it clear when it's dealing 
with mbox and when it's addressing maildir.

> 2nd note: using a variable the syntax is i.e. ${MAILDIR}
>
Sorry - typo when copying the output onto this box.

> > Every time, I get the message appended to a text file, as though it
> > was an mbox file, in ~/Maildir.
>
> See above. 3 of your test syntax lines are wrong because of missing
> trailing slash. The one with the trailing slash writes should have
> written into directory "Design" as a maildir, though the path is not
> the one you expect it to be; i.e. if you specified
> "MAILDIR=/home/awilson/Mail/", then the result would have been
> "/{/home/awilson/Mail/}Design".
>
> Following should work as expected:
>
> ###
>
> MAILDIR=/home/awilson/Mail/
> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR
>
> :0
>
> * ^To:.*design at lydgate.org
> $MAILDIR/Design/
>
Hmm - I must still be missing something.  Now I'm getting a mbox-style 
file called msg.fYY in ~/Maildir/.INBOX.Design - and of course the 
message doesn't show up in my folders.  Here is the whole of 
the .procmailrc as it stands at the moment.  Can you spot the pebcak?  
Thanks.
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#These assume that mail is already tagged on injection
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

#Set user variable
USER=`anne`

#Set user Inbox directory
MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR

#Set logfile
LOGFILE=/home/anne/pm.log
VERBOSE=YES
LOGABSTRACT=YES

LOG="
"

###For maildir, ensure that all recipe commands end with '/'###

# Create a safety net

:0 c
$MAILDIR/backup/

#Start real recipes

:0
* ^To:.*design at lydgate.org
  $MAILDIR/Design/
*****

Anne