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Re: Procmail



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On Tuesday, October  9 at 09:28 AM, quoth Rem P Roberti:
>> What do you mean that mutt "never sees it"---if you open that mailbox, 
>> is the new message missing? Is it not marked "new"? What's the 
>> problem?
>
> Is what marked "new"?

The new message.

>> If you're upset that mutt didn't inform you "hey! There's new mail 
>> in a mailbox you aren't looking at!", keep in mind that mutt only 
>> keeps tabs on the mailboxes that you tell it to keep tabs on. So, 
>> if you want to be notified when new email is delivered to the 
>> mailbox "testing", then you have to specify in your muttrc:
>
>>    mailboxes testing
>
> Well...I did put a "mailboxes testing" entry in my .muttrc, along with 
> one for the Mutt users group, and for the FreeBSD users group.  And all 
> mail for those entities is going to their respective folders, but Mutt 
> does not notify me of any arrivals.  I have the feeling that something 
> crucial is missing from my .muttrc file, but I don't know what.

I suspect you probably are just missing some syntax. For example, 
mutt's mailboxes take full paths, not just names that are relative to 
some other setting. So, for example, if procmail is saving messages to 
$HOME/testing then you need to tell mutt:

     mailboxes $HOME/testing

Otherwise, if you just have "mailboxes testing", mutt will look for a 
file named "testing" in whatever the current directory is.

~Kyle
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