Re: Problem using mbox format

Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.procmail
Organization Ptilopteri in Pandemonium
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Robert Holtzman <[email protected]> [12-29-10 18:41]:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 03:46:30PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > * Sandra Weddig <[email protected]> [12-29-10 15:24]:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I catch my mails with fetchmail and they are delivered to my maildir
> > > in maildir format but I nedd to use my exisiting mbox.
> > 
> > perhaps as little as:
> > 
> > > # ~/.procmailrc
> > # PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin"
====================================
> > > MAILDIR="/var/mail"
> > # DEFAULT="/var/mail/"
====================================
> > > LOGFILE="/var/mail/procmail.log"
> > > SHELL="/bin/sh"
> > > VERBOSE="on"
> 
> As little as what?

Read
removing two lines
mbox needs /var/mail, not /var/mail/
and $MAILDIR is set properly and $DEFAULT is not necessary, ie: will
reflect $MAILDIR.

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