- On Tue, 10.Sep.2002, 19:58EDT, Michael P. Soulier uttered: > On 11/09/02 Johan Almqvist did speaketh: > > > # cat ~/.qmail > > |preline procmail -t ~/.procmailrc > > > > # cat ~/.procmailrc > > DEFAULT="~/Maildir/" > > > > #cat ~/.muttrc > > mailboxes ~/Maildir/ > > I take it that your other mail folders then would be sub-folders of > ~/Maildir? My sysadmin recently told me that was a bad idea. > [snip]
Smack your sysadmin. Maildir format, that is 'extended maildir' format, happily allows for nested maildirs. You wind up with structure that looks like: foo/ foo/cur/ foo/new/ foo/tmp/ foo/.bar/ foo/.bar/cur/ foo/.bar/new/ foo/.bar/tmp/ .bar is obviously a 'sub-folder' of foo; extended-maildir-aware mail clients should strip the dot and just show it to you as 'bar'. mutt, from what I've seen, doesn't do this. It shows you verbatim: foo/.bar/, which is fine for me. :) I don't use procmail but rather maildrop which knows about maildirs (extended), along with qmail. My ~/.qmail: $ cat .qmail # simple one-liner |maildrop I've got maildrop delivering to ~/Mail/INBOX/ by default (ie, when no other rule is satisfied). List mail winds up in a structure like: ~/Mail/lists/.mutt/ ~/Mail/lists/.kernel/ ...etc Note that ~/Mail/lists/ is itself a maildir (although I don't use it for receiving mail currently). The ~/.mutt/muttrc contains: set folder=~/Mail set mbox_type=Maildir set spoolfile=~/Mail/INBOX mailboxes `mdirs` `mdirs` is a simple shell script to find all the maildirs: #!/bin/bash # exec find ~/Mail -type d -mindepth 1 \ \( -name tmp -o -name cur -o -name new \ -prune \) \ -o \ \( -type d -mindepth 1 -printf '"%p" ' \) (Every dir below ~/Mail is assumed to be in maildir format; this picks up things like sent-mail and postponed and other fcc locations, so mutt winds up claiming things like 'new mail in =sent-mail' after sending a mail out, but this is OK for me.) Anyway, good luck! Sorry I don't have any procmail recipes. :/ Regards, Keith.
