On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:59:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> However able to get the mail delivered where I want to, Mutt complains that
> the destination box (spoolfile) is not a mail box.
> I don't have a clue as to where I must look. The documentation of
> procmail/mutt requires expert-insight; no easy "looks like this" examples
> (well it does, but it don't work for me). Also the mutt and procmail webpages
> for Newbies gave me an impression of what is possible, impressive by the way,
> but I could not get a configuration out of it.
>
I've had these problems as well. The documentation that I looked at
didn't mention how to fix the problem with the error 'is not a mail
box'.
>
> .forward #Found the second option on internet...
> ##########
> #'| /usr/bin/procmail'
> "| /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #mail"
>
>
I also had a .forward file, seems mutt will ( in debian) work
without this file. I have since deleted it.
> .fetchmailrc #This seems to work....
> ##############
> set postmaster "mail"
May want to set this as your login user name, so you recieve any
mail generated by the system
> set nobouncemail
> set no spambounce
> set properties ""
> poll mail.local.inet with proto POP3
> user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' there with password 'Sure' is 'otheruser'
> hereoptions fetchall no rewrite stripcr
> mda '/usr/bin/procmail'
>
I also had the mda line as well in my .muttrc, I think this may have
been the culprit causing the error with the mailbox not being recognized
as being a mailbox, don't know for sure, but it's not commented out
and seems to work fine.
> poll mymail.domain.com with proto POP3 and options no dns
> user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' there with password 'GeheimerKanNie' is
> 'gebruikert' here options fetchall no rewrite stripcr
> mda '/usr/bin/procmail'
>
> poll pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk with proto POP3
> user 'user' there with password 'DontTell' is 'user' here options
> fetchall no rewrite stripcr
> mda '/usr/bin/procmail'
>
>
> ############################################################
> .procmailrc #Cleaned it up a bit
> #############
> MAILDIR=/home/snotty/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists
> DEFAULT=${MAILDIR}/inbox #completely optional
> LOGFILE=${MAILDIR}/procmail.log #recommended
> SCHADUW=${MAILDIR}/schaduw
>
I'm not to sure about the braces surrounding the MAILDIR above, I
don't have those in my .procmailrc
> ##Whatever recipes you'll use
> ##The order of the recipes is significant
> #:0:
> #* ^From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> #/dev/null
> :0:
> * ^From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> /dev/null
>
> :0:
> * ^Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> $SCHADUW
>
> :0:
> * ^From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> $SCHADUW
>
> :0:
> * ^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> /var/mail/marlies
>
> # Accept all the rest to your default mailbox
> :0:
> ${DEFAULT}
>
>
> ########################################################
> .muttrc # Looks okee don't it?
> #########
> set spoolfile = /home/snotty/Mail/inbox
> set mbox = read
> set mbox_type = Maildir
> mailboxes !
> #mailboxes /var/mail/snotty
> #mailboxes /home/snotty/mail/inbox
> mailboxes /home/snotty/Mail/read
> #mailboxes /home/snotty/Mail/procmail.log
/home/snotty/Mail/procmail.log is not a mail box, you can remove
this
> mailboxes /home/snotty/Mail/schaduw
This appears to be where you want the mail from rule #3 to end up,
if so, I think, schaduw, needs to be changed, either in the rules or
this line, they need to be the same
>
> Thanks for reading all of this
> Gr. Frans
>
>
>
No problem, hope this help get your mail sorted
jerry
