Re: Problem using mbox format
Sandra Weddig <[email protected]>
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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 > > ( Please address personal email to alan+1@ as email to lists@ > is only read from my subscribed lists. ) > > ____________________________________________________________ > procmail mailing list Procmail homepage: http://www.procmail.org/ > [email protected] > http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/procmail