Well, I've been playing with exmh and really like it so I decided to go wild 
and convert all my mailbox folders to mh folders.  I've been using procmail 
(installed in sendmail as the local delivery agent) to do my filtering and 
presorting.  Worked great with mailbox format folders, but less than stellar 
with mh format folders.  I can get it to store the files in the right 
directories no problem, but it doesn't seem to ever be recognized by exmh as 
new mail.  Exmh sees the messages just fine, but they're marked as already read.

So, I decided to try out slocal.  I created a .forward file that looks like:
"| /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user braddr"
as well as
"| /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user braddr || exit 75"

In both cases when mail hit slocal it just sat there and eventually it got 
marked Deferred by sendmail.

My .maildelivery file looks like:
To debian-user@lists.debian.org  | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -create 
+lists/debian"
To [EMAIL PROTECTED]         | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -create 
+lists/inet-access"
To [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +lists/kernel"
To [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +lists/linuxisp"
default -                        | ? "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -create +inbox"

and .mh_profile:
Path: Mail
draft-folder: drafts
unseen-sequence: unseen

One definite problem that I noticed is that slocal seems to be changing the 
ownernship on /var/spool/mail/braddr to braddr.braddr instead of braddr.mail 
with the perms of 664 and procmail (still the default delivery agent) 
complained about those permissions.

Given that there are so many package involved, I decided to take procmail out 
of the loop and just use deliver as the MDA, but that didn't make slocal called 
from my .forward file work any better.  I suspect its mostly the permissions 
issues with slocal.

Please respond directly to me, and I'll summarize the problems to the list when 
this is resolved.

For the record, at the moment I'm back to having procmail as both the MDA and 
the filter, so its a little hard for me to tell what mail is new in each of the 
filtered folders, but atleast they're filtered.

Thanks,
Brad



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