Re: problems with Maildir, procmail, getmail
I think i might have some problems with Maildir:
I've got the Maildir directory, with the require cur.tmp,new sub directories.
Then i've got IN-inbox (spoolfile) and its sub-directires inside ~/Maildir.
I've then got 3 other directories for mailing list mailboxes set up in the same
way.
as well as 'Drafts' 'Sent'
Having ~/Maildir/cur/new/tmp in this way, and then having other maildirs, is
this the correct way to set them up? this is the output from ls -al :
drwx------ 11 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 21:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 39 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 22:36 ..
drwx------ 2 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:25 cur
drwx------ 5 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 21:52 Drafts
drwx------ 5 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:26 IN-inbox
drwx------ 5 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:26 IN-mutt-dev
drwx------ 5 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:26 IN-mutt-users
drwx------ 5 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:27 IN-ubuntu-users
drwx------ 2 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:25 new
drwx------ 5 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:57 Sent
drwx------ 2 jamie jamie 4096 2008-03-09 15:25 tmp
in case it helps, i know it's a basic thing but i'd appreciate it if someone
could provide any tips.
Jamie
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:10:15PM +0100, Steve S wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:34:23PM +0000, Jamie Griffin wrote:
> > I've been struggling for ages trying to set up mutt on my linux
> > machine.
> >
> > I've specified the Maildir mailboxes in muttrc
> > set up procmail
> > set up getmail to pop my email
>
> >
> > but when i open mutt it wants to use /var/mail/user
> >
> > i created this using:
> >
> > sudo touch /var/mail/user
> > sudo chown user:users /var/mail/user
> > sudo chmod 600/var/mail/user
> >
> > This stopped mutt complaining it wasn't there but now when i pop my
> > email using getmail, i'm lots of error messages returned from the shell
> > with procmail. its saying the problem is with /var/mail/user.lock ???
> >
> > none of the messages are being filtered into the right folders as a
> > result... i don't know what to do next. Any ideas?
> >
> > Jamie
>
> Hmm never seen errors like these, but I'm using pretty much your setup.
>
> muttrc:
>
> set mbox_type=Maildir
> set folder=~/Maildir
> set spoolfile=~/Maildir
> set trash=+trash
> set record=+sent
> set postponed=+postponed
> mailboxes +spam +inbox +sent ...
>
> .procmailrc starts with:
>
> MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
>
> The MDA part of my getmailrc files (I use `getmail -r <rc-file1> -r <rc-file2>
> ...` to fetch mail from several POP3 accounts):
>
> [destination]
> type = MDA_external
> arguments = ("-f", "%(sender)")
> path = /usr/bin/procmail
>
>
> HTH
>
> cheers,
> steve