Hi Scott -
How would I tell? I built the box from scratch and set up CentOS
Linux 5 up on it - over one year, probably not more than three.
I had been running with a RedHat system prior to that - and I may well
have copied the procmailrc settings from that -- don't actually
recall. But Dovecot, Procmail and Spamassasin all came up fresh with
the install of CentOS.
On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Scott Silva wrote:
on 9-17-2008 11:39 AM Dan Roberts spake the following:
I could use some help here - As I use Dovecot I started here when trying to figure out why I
could not add new mail folders under my Mac's Mail program, but
could under Thunderbird. It was quickly pointed out that my system was set up to use MBOX
and not MAILDIR, and some helpful links and notes were sent back
and forth giving me a good clue as to how to perform the conversion
process. I did have success in getting my mail accounts converted from mbox
to maildir, but then ran aground. I could see all of my existing mail and create new folders, but I
could not see any of my incoming mail. What I was late in realizing was that I needed to also adjust the
settings for my LDA, which as I am using sendmail is procmail, and
it was suggested that I needed to adjust /etc/procmail to include
the line DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ I did that, but new mail still didn't show up correctly. I can
only assume that I have something still not properly adjusted in my
procmail settings. Given that I got everything else to work, and even successfully
upgraded dovecot, it was very frustrating to set everything back to
square one with mbox so that I had a functioning system once
again. I am about to have some time on my hands and am going to
try again - but this time I thought I would ask for help before I
possibly loose my ability to receive new mail - makes reading those
suggestions very hard. At present, my etc/procmailrc file is like this.[dan@trailrunner etc]$ cat procmailrc # send mail through SpamAssassin :0 fw
- < 256000 | /usr/bin/spamc -f
In each users Home directory I have a .procmailrc file that further
directs things on a user level. For my directory this file is currently[dan@trailrunner ~]$ cat .procmailrc MAILDIR=$HOME/mail PROBABLYJUNK = /home/dan/mail/probably-spam :O H probably-spam
- ^X-Spam-Status:.*Yes { EXITCODE=67 :0:
}
I admit that I set up Spamassasin some years ago and though I have
updated things now and then, I don't recall all of the reasoning
behind the setup - just know that it has been working. Whether I put the new line "DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/" in one file,
the other or both - I got no incoming mail. My guess was that I
had offended promail in one way or another. So, as I prepare to do the MBOX to MAILDIR conversion once again,
does anyone have any guidance to offer for how to properly adjust
the procmail files so that I can continue to filter spam? Much appreciated. Cheers - dan How old is the distro on the system? Older versions of procmail don't support maildir.-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!