* Michael Elkins <m...@sigpipe.org> [2012-12-31 15:10:29 +0000]: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 09:04:21AM +0000, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > >I use something very similar: I read the Maildirs directly on my mx > >server using mutt but use imap from my Mac to the server also using mutt > >and ssh tunnel; however, I do use procmail in conjunction with Dovecot > >lda which delivers to and creates Maildirs if they don't exist. > > Just FYI, procmail can create the maildirs itself as well: > > If the mailbox is specified to be an MH folder or maildir folder, > procmail will create the necessary directories if they don't > exist, rather than treat the mailbox as a non-existent filename. When > procmail is delivering to directories, you can specify mul‐ > tiple directories to deliver to (procmail will do so utilising > hardlinks). >
Yes this is what I do, in conjunction with dovecot lda (since I recently installed the imap server). An excerpt from my .procmailrc: SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail/log DELIVER=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver ORGMAIL=$HOME/.maildir/ DEFAULT=$HOME/.maildir/ :0 * ^Sender:.*owner-mutt-us...@mutt.org | $DELIVER -m mutt :0 * ^List-Id:.*beginners.perl.org | $DELIVER -m perl With a configuration setting in Dovecot to automatically create Maildirs/Mailboxes if they don't already exit. I get mailboxes with a '.' prepended to them - as I pointed out earlier, this can be changed using the LAYOUT=fs setting in Dovecot. Certain muttrc variables have be set to accommodate this layout. set folder=$MAIL set mask=. ... ksh ~/.profile: ... export MAIL='$HOME/.maildir/' Sorry that some of this has already been suggested in the thread, thought I'd contribute my configuration settings in more detail for clarity. I hope that helps in some way. Jamie -- Primary Key: 4096R/1D31DC38 2011-12-03 Key Fingerprint: A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38
