I have finally decided to start experimenting with Maildirs. I rely heavily on
procmail to do my mail sorting for me. I set up a test rule:
:0
* ^[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* ^Subject: test
test.`/bin/date +%m%y`/new
Mail to me with a subect of test goes to the specified maildir. Is it really
necessary to append /new to the name of the Maildir? If I don't the mail gets
dropped into directory test.`/bin/date +%m%y`. But I notice in procmail's
config.h it specified the names of the different directories that make up a
Maildir so procmail should know to drop it into Maildir/new instead of
Maildir.
Also, I find my little `/bin/date +%m%y` trick to be quite handy for
preventing mailboxes from growing to unmanageable sizes. Automatically rolling
over each month is nifty. Before procmail would create the new mbox files for
me automatically. It won't automatically create Maildirs for me. Anyone have a
solution?
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Tracy Reed http://www.ultraviolet.org
"Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief.
They all kill their inspiration, and sing about the grief." - U2
