Re: procmail with mutt
* Gerald Britton <gerald.britton@xxxxxxxxx> [01-13-06 18:10]:
> I believe that procmail is working as documented. However, what I want
> to know is how to get mutt to read the messages procmail creates.
>
> On 1/13/06, Nicolas Rachinsky <mutt-users-0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * Gerald Britton <gerald.britton@xxxxxxxxx> [2006-01-13 17:03 -0500]:
> > > esmtp, with procmail as the local mda, but for this test I went
> > > direct, using the procmail -d command
> >
> > man procmailrc
> >
> > Recipe action line
> > [...]
> > If it is a directory, the mail will be delivered to a newly
> > created,
> > guaranteed to be unique file named $MSGPREFIX* in the specified
> > direc-
> > tory.
> >
> > Your destination is a directory. I think, procmail behaves as
> > documented.
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
Procmail does not *create* messages. It delivers messages according
to the rules you devise.
You have told procmail to deliver to a directory, <xxx>/, which
contains a trailing '/' which is an indicator for for 'maildir', see
'man procmailrc'. Remove the trailing '/' and try again.
?? Usually ??, the first place to look when haveing problems would be:
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