Re: procmail with mutt
Yup -- I have procmailrc OK but mutt refuses to read the messages. I
think that mutt doesn't recognize the messages for some reason
On 1/13/06, Jason Helfman <jhelfman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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