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[Alan Premselaar]

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Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 28 Jan 2006 23:37, Willem Riede wrote:
>> On 01/28/2006 05:52:43 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On Saturday 28 Jan 2006 20:21, Markus Dobel wrote:
>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>>> * ^To:.*design at lydgate.org
>>>>>>   ${MAILDIR}.Design
>>>>> That just leaves the question of the procmail recipe.  Will the
>>>>> messages end up in the right place?
>>>> AFAIK, Maildir-folders have to end with a "/" in procmailrc. The
>>>> procmail recipe should read
>>>>
>>>> * ^To:.*design at lydgate.org
>>>>    ${MAILDIR}.Design/
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Markus
>>> Unfortunately it just doesn't work.
>> It does for me:
>>
>> # .procmailrc setup file
>> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/mh:/usr/lib/mh:/usr/local/bin
>> SHELL=/bin/sh
>> MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
>> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/.Other/
>> LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail.log
>>
>> # to eliminate duplicates
>>
>> :0 Wh
>> :
>> | formail -D 512000 $HOME/.msgid.cache
>>
> I do believe you.  Others have said the same, but it didn't for me.  
> Late last night I got a result, but I had to define the folder as
> ${MAILDIR}/.INBOX.Design/new
> 
> I can only think that there is a variable definition somewhere that is 
> not set optimally.  I'd like to identify it, but if I can't, at least I 
> have something now that works.
> 
> Thanks to all for the input.
> 
> Anne

Anne,

 it looks like you just have had some small typos or misunderstandings
throughout this process.  anyways, it looks like you're getting close.

the problem with the above "${MAILDIR}/.INBOX.Design/new" is that
procmail will then write an mbox style file called "new" in
${MAILDIR}/.INBOX.Design/  which is not what you want.

to use procmail with maildir format (which is what I'm assuming you want
to do with your setup, you need to end your destination directory with a /

simply having ${MAILDIR}/.INBOX.Design/   or ${MAILDIR}/.Design/ would
have worked for you.

the different between [1]${MAILDIR}/.Design/ and
[2]${MAILDIR}/.INBOX.Design/ is that the former will show up as a "root
level" folder in your mailbox heirarchy, and the latter will show up as
a subfolder of your INBOX.

[1] in uber ascii art representation:

*mail account name
|
 -> INBOX
 -> Design
 -> Trash
 -> Sent
 -> Etc

[2] in uber ascii art representation

*mail account name
|
 -> INBOX
     \-> Design
 -> Trash
 -> Sent
 -> Etc

you can actually achieve the same type of heirarchy with mbox
format,although a primary difference is that in this case,
.INBOX.Design/ can contain messages AND subfolders whereas mbox format
will only allow .INBOX.Design to contain messages OR subfolders.

anyways, I hope you find this useful.

Alan
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