On 2007.10.09 18:23:23 +0000, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday, October 9 at 05:15 PM, quoth Joseph: > >If you have mbox it should be: > >:0: > >* ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >$HOME/Mail/user > > In case it's not clear, the reason to use .* instead of just a space > is that the way From headers are typically sent is like this: > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > or > > From: User Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ...and so you can have lots of cruft in between the "From:" and the > email address EVEN IF MUTT DOESN'T SHOW IT TO YOU. Mutt makes the From > header look a little prettier than the raw email, and that can be > deceptive. :) > > If you want to see the email in the form that procmail does, try > pressing the e key in mutt when you view a message (don't save any > inadvertent changes when you close your editor, though!). > > ~Kyle
My thanks again to both of you. Creating my .procmailrc recipe in the manner suggested by Joseph did the trick. What I don't understand is that since the variable MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail exists at the beginning of .procmailrc why is it necessary to state the full path to the target mailbox in the recipe? Rem
