Kyle Wheeler wrote:

On Wednesday, October 22 at 11:35 PM, quoth Albert E. Whale:

...

I am currently testing a single user, and have successfully converted the mail messages from mbox to Maildir format, and now I am setting up the procmail tool to place the messages into the correct folder. I have been following the http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat formula, but now have a question.

New Messages are now being placed into the ~user/Maildir/new folder.

Procmail understands Maildir natively; you don't have to tell it to put messages into the "new" folder, you should just tell it to put things into the Maildir folder and end the line with a /, like so:

# correct!
:0
~user/Maildir/

# incorrect
:0
~user/Maildir/new/

# also incorrect
:0
~user/Maildir/new

If you specify the "new" directory, you're either telling procmail to treat that directory like an MH folder, which is wrong, or you're telling procmail that the "new" directory is a Maildir, in which case it will create another "new" directory within that directory (along with a "tmp" and "cur" directories).

~Kyle Thanks Kyle, the Procmailrc script I am using is as follows:

more ~health/.procmailrc

Maildir procmail setup

SHELL=/bin/sh PATH="$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/include:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin: /usr/sbin" MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ ORGMAIL=$HOME/Maildir/ DEFAULT=$ORGMAIL LOGFILE=/var/Procmail/log LOGABSTRACT=all VERBOSE=yes

:0 $ORGMAIL

I believe that this matches your correct example. That is just where Procmail places them.

-- Albert E. Whale, CHS CISA CISSP Sr. Security, Network, Risk Assessment and Systems Consultant

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Thanks Kyle, the Procmailrc script I am using is as follows: ... I believe that this matches your correct example. That is just where Procmail places them.

Huh, well, indeed it does match my example.

The only other reason I can think of for Dovecot to not see new mail that gets delivered properly is if the permissions on that mail are wrong. (Mail that it cannot read essentially does not exist.) Make sure you're delivering mail as the right user.

~Kyle

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