On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 09:19:46PM -0500, Ronny Haryanto wrote:
> On 09-May-2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi I have a few simple (hopefully) simple questions. 1. Is it
> > possible to use procmail to sort mail into multiple maildirs user
> > one user account? ie: qmail list in one maildir and mutt list in
> > another maildir and normal mail to a third maildir all under the
> > same user account?
>
> Yes. Don't forget to 'maildirmake' each maildir first.
>
> > 2. Does anyone know of any documentation regarding the use of
> > procmail with maildirs?
>
> Starting from version 3.14 procmail supports maildirs, so it should
> have some kind of documentation. But the only significant things that
> differ from mbox are that you don't need locking and you need a
> forward slash ("/") at the end of a folder name.
>
> > 3. Is this possible using .qmail files instead? I haven't had any
> > luck yet and I don't know if it's because all my mail is fetched
> > from my ISP mail server or what the deal is.
>
> I would highly recommend using a filtering program such as procmail or
> maildrop. For procmail simply put:
> | preline procmail
> in your .qmail file and create your .procmailrc as usual.
>
> Ronny
>
Upgraded from procmail 3.13.1 to 3.14 and made changes to .qmail files and
/var/qmail/rc , set MAILDIR=$HOME in .procmailrc and IT WORKS!!!
Thanks for your help.
Bob
