Re: procmail with mutt

[Jason Helfman <jhelfman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not using procmail right now, but as I recall, you need to use a 
.procmailrc in your home directory, and then just type mutt -f /var/mail/me, 
however if you have your home directory configured correctly in .muttrc, you 
can just type "mutt"

You may be able to use an alternative .procmailrc file, but you may need to 
specify it differently.

-Jason

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:38:19PM -0500, Gerald Britton thus spake:
> Can anyone tell me the right way to get procmail working with mutt?  I
> have procmailrc set up like this:
>
> $ cat /etc/procmailrc
> # Use mbox-style mailbox in FHS standard directory
> DEFAULT=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
> LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail
>
> I also have my userid set up as a directory under /var/mail/. 
> However, when I send myself an E-mail, I get something like this:
>
> $ ls /var/mail/me/
> msg.7QdS  msg.ChmU  msg.MSbU  msg.V_WF  msg.amXT  msg.ikDB  msg.sXSF 
> msg.sXbU  msg.uWtL  msg.wWtL  msg.x3cS
>
> If I try to read this with mutt, like this
>
> mutt -f /var/mail/me -m mbox
>
> I get the message from mutt:
>
> /var/mail/me/ is not a mailbox.
>
> Does anyone know what's going on

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