[Dovecot] procmail, mutt, and Mac OS X
Hi,
I'm using procmail to deliver my mail to my maildir boxes, that are watched by dovecot, and I configured mutt to use imap to access these boxes.
After installing a more recent procmail (the default one from Apple has a bug with "/" in the filenames, so I used the one from Fink), I sent myself a message, which was delivered correctly to Maildir/.INBOK/new (I can see the file there). However, I cannot see this file from mutt. I think it is dovecot that is not seeing it, as I tried quitting and restarting mutt.
So my question is: how can I tell dovecot that it should check the mailboxes, and is there a way to make it do so regularly? Or is my problem from somewhere else?
Thanks a lot,
Alan Schmitt
-- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO
On 20.10.2004, at 21:53, Alan Schmitt wrote:
After installing a more recent procmail (the default one from Apple has a bug with "/" in the filenames, so I used the one from Fink), I sent myself a message, which was delivered correctly to Maildir/.INBOK/new (I can see the file there). However, I cannot see this file from mutt. I think it is dovecot that is not seeing it, as I tried quitting and restarting mutt.
INBOX is a special case. Maildir/.INBOX/ only contains indexes for INBOX, the actual INBOX directory is just Maildir/ (ie. it should write to Maildir/new).
- Timo Sirainen (tss@iki.fi) wrote:
On 20.10.2004, at 21:53, Alan Schmitt wrote:
After installing a more recent procmail (the default one from Apple has a bug with "/" in the filenames, so I used the one from Fink), I sent myself a message, which was delivered correctly to Maildir/.INBOK/new (I can see the file there). However, I cannot see this file from mutt. I think it is dovecot that is not seeing it, as I tried quitting and restarting mutt.
INBOX is a special case. Maildir/.INBOX/ only contains indexes for INBOX, the actual INBOX directory is just Maildir/ (ie. it should write to Maildir/new).
This was a tricky one ;-)
I think I now have a fully working local setup (I still need to test with Mail.app when I get to work). The next step will be to work on IMAP synchronization. By the way, is someone here using isync.sf.net or offlineIMAP with dovecot?
Thanks again for the quick response and the great support.
Alan Schmitt
-- The hacker: someone who figured things out and made something cool happen. .O. ..O OOO
On 20.10.2004, at 23:14, Alan Schmitt wrote:
INBOX is a special case. Maildir/.INBOX/ only contains indexes for INBOX, the actual INBOX directory is just Maildir/ (ie. it should write to Maildir/new).
This was a tricky one ;-)
Hmm. I think I'll just remove the directory completely. I had some thoughts why keeping indexes there would be useful in future, but .. perhaps not.
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Alan Schmitt
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Timo Sirainen