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Re: User's inbox



Hi Rem,

Am 2008-07-10 21:25:49, schrieb Rem P Roberti:
<snip>
> mailboxes $HOME/Mail/walt
> mailboxes $HOME/Mail/inbox
> 
> All of those mailboxes, with the exception of "inbox", are actual
> folders.  Inbox, on the other hand is not a folder, but rather a file,
> to which are appended all of the email which is not put in named folders
> by Procmail.  Why is it that the inbox cannot itself have its own folder
> instead of just being a file?  You know, a folder containing cur, new,
> and tmp.  Normally, I wouldn't care about all of this, but I am using
> Mairix to do indexing and searching of email, and Mairix, to the best of
> my knowledge, will not index a file.  So I guess I'm asking why I can't
> set up my inbox just like any of the mailboxes that Procmail delivers
> to. 
> 
> Whew!  Does that make any sense?

The ~/.procmailrc should be something like:

----8<-------------------
MAILDIR=${HOME}/Mail
DEFAULT=${MAILDIR}/inbox/

:0
* ^From:.*walt
.walt/
----8<-------------------

The important line is

    DEFAULT=${MAILDIR}/

with the / at the end and of course you must do ONE time by hand a

    mkdir -p  $HOME/Mail/inbox/{tmp,cur,new}

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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