On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, James Green wrote:
> OK so I give up trying to figure this one out :-( > > I've got exim up and running. I used eximconf and selected option > 2. I also have fetchmail and procmail up and running. > > Mail comes in from mail.linux.com using imap. The connection is > tunnelled over ssh. The connection goes fine and my proc.log shows > mail being received and filtered to my mail folders. > > I can fire up mutt, and point it at a mailbox (any) and I get: > /home/jg/mail.linux.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] is not a mailbox. > This also occurs on loading mutt, but with > /var/spool/mail/jg instead. > > The mail files themselves look like this: > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from mail.linux.com > by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.3.4) > for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (single-drop); Fri, 21 Jul 2000 20:47:26 +0100 > (BST) > Received: from seralph10.essex.ac.uk (seralph10.essex.ac.uk [155.245.240.160]) > by mail.linux.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA24469 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 06:57:57 -0800 > Received: from sunlab19.essex.ac.uk > ([155.245.160.19] helo=sunlab19 ident=jmkgre) > by seralph10.essex.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) > id 12YVXA-0005xx-00 > for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:57:56 +0000 > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:57:55 +0000 (GMT) > From: Green J M K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: vrml link > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Length: 33 > Lines: 3 > > http://www.best.com/~rikk/Book/ > > > [ at which point more emails follow ] > > This format is identical to /var/spool/mail/jg. > > I'm told that the formatting is wrong and that exim is to blame. > However I am unable to find anyone in IRC who knows exim to help. As far as I see the problem about the formatting is that you need a From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <Date> line at the beginning of every message. You can make it by creating a little wrapper-script in your favourite programming language (awk, perl, python, bash, tcsh, even C/C++), and piping the message through the script in your procmailrc. Ask for help if you are not a programmer, Pavel
