Mar & Mark --
...and then Fairlight said...
% On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:10:38AM -0400, Mark E. Drummond wrote:
% > I would like to change my setup a bit so that I have say ~/Mail/ which
% > would contain Maildir style mailboxes under it like so:
% > ~/Mail/inbox
% > ~/Mail/mutt
% > ~/Mail/qmail
% > So everything is set up except for the mail filter and I am wondering
% > which I should use. I have some experience with procmail but have not
% > managed to get it to work with qmail. Is there a filter that I can stick
% > in the pipe that will deliver to Maildir style folders?
%
% Maildir is the one where each message is in a separate unique file inside
% the "directory" which is the folder, no?
I think so, too, but can't tell for sure. Maybe I'm thinking of mh.
%
% Should be easy with procmail. You just need to do a variable substitution
% from an execution at the top of the .procmailrc to a small script of your
% choice that assembles a random filename from the PID ($$ in most shells)
% and the mm-dd-hh-mm of the `date` command and stick them together like:
% $$-mm-dd-hh-mm
If I were going to do this, I'd probably put the $$ at the end so that
it would sort well :-) But you don't even have to do that much...
%
% So say you have a script "maildirdate" in procmail's path somewhere, you'd
% do: fixedfile=`maildirdate`
%
% Then when you save out to your mailing lists, you could use the variable as
% the last part of the filename in your specific recipes:
% /home/mark/Mail/mutt/$fixedfile
Instead, just tell procmail to put it there; use a destination folder
that looks like
/home/mark/Mail/mutt/.
to tell procmail to increment its counter and drop the new message in
place.
%
% I -think- that works the way you want it, maintaining procmail usage for
% you. :) I glanced over the procmailrc man page quickly and it looks like
% it's acceptable.
%
% (another) mark->
:-D
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