Derek Martin <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:42:01AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: >> I'm experimenting with different ways to handle email. I configured >> procmail to deliver email in mh format by appending '/.' to the >> folder name in a few of its delivery specification. > [...] > > I think you did not... AFAIK--and granted it's been a very, very long > time since I've seen anyone even mention mh format so I may be > misremembering--you need to use the mh mail tools, by having procmail > deliver the messages to mh's recvstore (or something like that) > program. Procmail, AFAIK, has no mh folder support and is not by > itself sufficient to deliver to mh mail folders.
It's recommended that you use rcvstore to put messages into folders, which works perfectly well with procmail. I use this all the time. I have procmail rules like: :0 w: mh$LOCKEXT * ^Subject: .*(afford|cheap|credit|debt|discount|loan|mortgage|refinanc) | rcvstore +spam (Make sure rcvstore is on your path.) Even so, I think you may have to create the .mh_sequences or .xmhcache file by hand in each mail folder. It's a one time operation, so you won't have to repeat it unless you create new folders. These files are not required by MH/nmh, but they are used by mutt to manage MH folders, so it's a bit of a quirk. -pd
