Re: Problem using mbox format

Sandra Weddig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.procmail
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Moin!

How do I have to configure that the mails should be delivered into

/var/mail/user/user

they are current delivered to

/var/mail/user/msg.xxx

?

Thanks, Sandra

Am 30.12.2010 um 12:15 schrieb Alan Clifford:

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Alan
>
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