On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 16:31 -0700, Joseph Tam wrote: > Arthur Dent <arthurdent.lon...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I get my mail from a variety of ISP and online email accounts using > > fetchmail. I guess there's no change needed there? > > > > That feeds into procmail. I think I will have to change the mail > > procmail configuration file and ALL my procmail recipe rc files (I have > > many) - which filter into several different mboxs? > > As others have intimated, the use of procmail as your LDA is causing your > mailbox to become inconsistent with respect to your indices. Procmail is > appending your messages to mailboxes, but is ignorant of the existence > of dovecot indices, and does not update them. When your IMAP service > access those mailboxes, it detects this condition, and that's the log > messages you are seeing. > > I think those messages are benign -- you can probably ignore it. > Dovecot will automatically rebuild them. > > The alternative is to let dovecot's be responsible for message delivery: > it can then update the indices, and IMAP/POP will find consistent indices. > > Try this at the end of procmailrc for regular delivery to the INBOX > > > ################################################################################ > # Replace default action using dovecot-lda to maintains caches. > > ################################################################################ > :0 w > | /location/of/dovecot-lda -d $USER > > For for non-INBOX filtering, try something like > > :0 Hw > *^Subject: TEST > |/location/of/dovecot-lda -d $USER -m testbox
Thanks Joseph - this is really useful. By coincidence (whilst researching all of this) last night I cam across this page: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/procmail which says exactly what you suggested. I tried it as an experiment on just one of my mailing list recipes. It didn't work and dropped through to my default inbox. This is what I have: :0 w * ^List-Id:.*users.lists.fedoraproject.org | $DELIVER -m $DESTDIR/MLists/Fedora where: DELIVER=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver DESTDIR=/home/mark/mail/ are defined in a the main procmailrc This is what I found in the procmail log: lda: Fatal: destination user parameter (-d user) not given procmail: Program failure (64) of "/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver" procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "spamc" >From users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org Wed May 28 01:39:03 2014 Subject: Five Things in Fedora This Week (2014-05-27) Why did this mail not get delivered to /home/mark/mail/MLists/Fedora? Thanks again Mark
