Re: Problem using mbox format

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Sandra Weddig wrote:

> My conf for procmail looks now like:
>
> # ~/.procmailrc
> PATH="/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin"
> MAILDIR="/var/mail"
> DEFAULT="/var/mail"
> LOGFILE="/var/mail/procmail.log"
> SHELL="/bin/sh"
> VERBOSE="on"
>
> Nothing changed, still same problem :(
>

Are you delivering to the /var/mail directory or to a file in the 
/var/mail/directory?

With that $DEFAULT, it is likely you are delivering to a directory.  To 
deliver mbox, you need to deliver to a file.  But please check the 
documentation on this:

man procmailrc

"If it is a (possibly yet nonexistent) filename, the mail will be appended 
to it. If it is a directory, the mail will be delivered to a newly 
created, guaranteed to be unique file named $MSGPREFIX* in the specified 
directory."

The / business is to do with MH style folders I think.

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Alan

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