On Monday 30 Jan 2006 07:57, Alan Premselaar wrote:
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.
It doesn't seem to be doing that. Take, for instance the folder
INBOX.Fedora.Users - there are 14 individual messages in cur, 0 in new.
All are visible over the lan. It is noticeable, though, that the
messages that came in when I was using /new are named differently from
the ones accepted without /new, whatever that implies.
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 ${MAILDIR}/.Design/ would have worked for you.
I'm using that now. I did try both those formats before without success. It's almost as though it needed one message to be accepted into /new to kick-start things, after which they can work without it.
the different between [1]${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.
Helpful explanation, thanks.
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.
I used to use subfolders on the old mbox system. I thought that the difference was accounted for by version, so I'm pleased that this has helped me understand more.
anyways, I hope you find this useful.
Very. But still a little puzzled about that 'new' thing. I'm trying to decide whether to leave it on for the little-used boxes that have not yet received any mail. The problem as I see it, is that before things were kick-started it was writing mbox-style to the right place. Now I don't know whether the system is correctly taking care of things, or whether the need is still folder-status-specific. If it *is* needed for those folders, leaving it off will result in lost, invisible messages.
Anne
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