At 10:29 AM 3/16/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:09:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:14:03PM -0500, Bob Billson wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 07:20:11PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote:
> > > > OK, I'm number than I thought. I see nothing but a mere mention of
> > > > maildir in one or two spots. Can you give a little more obvious 
> pointer?
> > >
> > > hrmm... You're right.  I can't find it either.  It used to be there.
> > > That's where I found out how to do it.
> > >
> > > Well, here is a relevant snippet from my exim.conf.  It should help get
> > > you going.  Note I deliver mail on my machine to the directory
> > > /home/$USER/Maildir rather than the *directory* /var/mail/$USER.  Either
> > > way, you *also* need to create three subdirs: new, cur, and tmp, e.g.
> > >
> > > mkdir /home/$USER/Maildir/{new,cur,tmp}
> > >
> > > Without them, mail won't get delivered.  I found that out the hard 
> way. :)
> > > Hope this helps.  If not, give a yell.
> >
> >
> > YEEEELLLLLL! :) I think my problem is in procmail. I had almost exactly
> > what you had. Looking at the exim logs, everything is going through
> > the procmail_pipe since I have a very extensive .procmailrc . I'll have to
> > figure out how to make procmail behave with maildir.
>
>OK, I have it figured out. You have to have
>
>DEFAULT = $HOME/Maildir
>
>in either your /etc/procmailrc (for systemwide delivery) or in your
>private .procmailrc for just you.
>
>If you are using Mutt for a local mailreader, you need to add
>
>set mbox_type=Maildir
>
>in your .muttrc .
>
>Now, the interesting thing about mutt is, it looks liks this:
>
>1190 O   Mar 15 Jones, Susan M  (  19) after work get-together for Bill
>1191 N F Mar 16 To Tim Sailer   (   0) test mail
>
>
>notice that message 1190 hsa 19 lines and 1191 shows 0 lines, although
>it has 10. The 1190 was from the mbox2mdir conversion, the new ones all
>show up as 0 lines
>
>Tim
>
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