On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 02:35:57AM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Christian Ordig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 08 May 2000:
> > I have to tell procmail manually to use folder/new/ or mutt won't find the
> > newly arrived mail... is THIS the right way to use procmail, shouldn't
> > procmail recognize the Maildir-style and put the mail to folder/new/
> > automaticly?
>
> Yes it should, but maybe you have an old version of procmail that
> doesn't support Maildir. The latest version is 3.14, and versions
> before that don't support it.
well... I still have 3.11pre7 ... I'll update and check again...
What criteria is used by procmail to recognize a Maildir folder?
> The reason why it "kind of" works is that procmail does support MH
> (or whatever the folder format is) which has files in one directory,
> and it treats that folder/new dir as a MH mail folder. But the names
> that the files get aren't "proper" Maildir files, and also you end up
> having to specify the new subdir too.
They also don't get proper MH names (they aren't numbered...)
Thanks.
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