alan premselaar schrieb:
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<Snip> > > 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