On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 03:38:19PM -0500 or thereabouts, Gerald Britton wrote: > 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 > That looks like maildir ... not mbox > If I try to read this with mutt, like this > > mutt -f /var/mail/me -m mbox > drop the -m mbox and see what happens. > I get the message from mutt: > > /var/mail/me/ is not a mailbox. I think this happens because your telling mutt to read it as a mbox file but its not. > > Does anyone know what's going on -- Casey Cichon casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Never ascribe to malice that which could merely be incompetence.
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