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From: Wild Fyre <wildfiah@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Procmail question.
To: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it>
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Is it possible to use 'mail' /usr/bin/mail to read the
messages?

If not how can i configure mutt to read the mail?


--- Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:34:21AM -0700, Wild Fyre
> wrote:
> > Hello ladies and gents,
> > 
> > How can i use procmail, so that 1) Mail can be
> > delivered to the users home directory instead of
> the
> > spool dir ie /var/mail.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > Stephan Weaver
> > 
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> 
> From procmailrc(5) manpage:
> 
> [...]
>    Recipes
>        A  line starting with ':' marks the beginning
> of a recipe.
>        It has the following format:
> 
>               :0 [flags] [ : [locallockfile] ]
>               <zero or more conditions (one per
> line)>
>               <exactly one action line>
> [...]
>    Recipe action line
>        The action line can start with the following
> characters:
> [...]
>        Anything else will be taken as a mailbox 
> name  (either  a
>        filename  or a directory, absolute or
> relative to the cur-
>        rent directory (see MAILDIR)).  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 $MSGPRE-
>        FIX* in the specified directory.  If the
> mailbox name ends
>        in "/.", then this directory  is  presumed 
> to  be  an  MH
>        folder;  i.e.,  procmail will use the next
> number it finds
>        available.  If the mailbox name ends  in 
> "/",  then  this
>        directory  is presumed to be a maildir
> folder; i.e., proc-
>        mail will deliver the message to a file in a 
> subdirectory
>        named  "tmp"  and  rename  it  to be inside a
> subdirectory
>        named "new".  If the mailbox is  specified 
> to  be  an  MH
>        folder  or maildir folder, procmail will
> create the neces-
>        sary directories if they don't exist,  rather
>  than  treat
>        the  mailbox as a non-existent filename. 
> When procmail is
>        delivering to directories, you can specify
> multiple direc-
>        tories  to  deliver  to  (procmail  will  do 
> so utilising
>        hardlinks).
> 
> 
> So you'll want something like:
> 
> -* begin .procmailrc-wind *-
> 
> MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/
> ORGMAIL=$MAILDIR/wind/
> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/wind/
> 
> :0
> * ^Sender.*freebsd-questions
> freebsd-questions/
> 
> :0 E
> * ^Sender.*freebsd-stable
> freebsd-stable/
> 
> :0 E
> * ^Sender.*freebsd-isp
> freebsd-isp/
> 
> :0 E
> * ^Sender.*freebsd-announce
> freebsd-announce/
> 
> -* end .procmailrc-wind *-
> 
> Messages from -questions, -stable, -isp and
> -announce go to (respectively)
> ~/Mail/freebsd-questions, ~/Mail/freebsd-stable,
> ~/Mail/freebsd-isp and
> ~/Mail/freebsd-announce. All other messages go to
> ~/Mail/wind, which is the
> default maildir.
> 
> For more information:
> 
>   man procmail
>   man procmailrc
>   man procmailex
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 	Francesco Casadei
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