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.

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On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 12:39 -0600, Dan Roberts wrote:

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. [...]

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:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^

This makes procmail deliver mail into mbox format files. You most likely want delivery action lines like this: .probably-spam/

Note the leading dot and the trailing slash. That makes procmail use Maildir format. You will have to adjust each and every delivery action. Please see 'man procmailrc'.

Moreover, your ${PROBABLYJUNK} variable doesn't match your ${DEFAULT}. You'd better not provide absolute, full paths there.

Given the above snippets, I guess procmail actually *did* deliver your mail. It's just been dumped in mbox format files, which dovecot with your changed settings doesn't recognize. And probably scattered in multiple directories...

guenther

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