alan premselaar schrieb:
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Bob,
if both directories still exist on your server but Thunderbird is only seeing one of them, the first thing I could suggest is checking your folder subscriptions (in thunderbird) ... it's very likely that the folder is being seen by thunderbird but just not displayed because it thinks it's not subscribed.
having said that, if you're going to have folders with spaces in them then you'll want to escape the space in your procmail rules. so, as an example if your folder is named ".Computer Science" then in your procmail rule you'll want to refer to it as ".Computer\ Science" (without the quotes. although you could probably just put the whole directory name in quotes and not have to escape the space directly)
That's all basics of the *nix special character escaping scheme and should be the same regardless of shell or application.
Sorry, I can't offer any information related to the pathname lenghts and NT/samba.
hope this helps.
Alan
Thanks Alan, I wasn't sure if procmail followed the standard *nix quoting system (other parts of the syntax seem to be a bit special), but now I know, I can make the changes I really want. You are right, of course, Thunderbird had not got entries for these folders as being 'subscribed'. I have regained my mails after experimenting (had done the file moving as 'root' and got wrong permissions - will I never learn?). Still have the windows pathlength problem, though. If anybody has an answer, I'd appreciate it.
Bob