Re: procmail with mutt
Dropping -m mbox gives the same results. It's not actually a maildir
anyway, since there is no "new" or "cur" subdirectory, just a bunch
of messages
On 1/13/06, Casey Cichon <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
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