On Tuesday 22 November 2005 11:34 am, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-11-21 04:16:02, schrieb Nate Duehr: > > That went surprisingly well. > > > > Steps on a stock Debian stable system that was just running > > basically default configuration exim4 and uw-imap were: > > > > 1. Shut down incoming mail/Stop exim. > > 2. su to each user in /var/spool/mail and convert their mbox > > mailbox to Maildir in their home directory. (This machine doesn't > > have a lot of users or I would have written a little script to do > > it.) The default of mb2md -m as long as you're the user you're > > converting works fine. The examples in > > /usr/share/doc/mb2md/USAGE.gz worked fine for anything else. 3. > > Check each user's ~/Mail folder for additional IMAP folders, and > > convert those. > > 4. Add these lines to each user's .procmailrc that had one: > > MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ > > From the procmaildocumentation: > Do not add a "/" at the Maildir. Use only > > MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir
No, this is incorrect information, which I've tested carefully both ways. This delivers messages in the format "msg.<randomstring>" (is that mh format? I've never seen that.) to $HOME/Maildir directly and doesn't know that directory contains Maildir-style directories: MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir This works for a true Maildir directory and delivers mail to individual files in $HOME/Maildir/new: MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/ Please provide a reference to the manual that's incorrect -- it should be corrected. The man page for procmailrc does not have any such instructions in it on my Sarge system. I have tested this both ways by adding: LOGFILE=/home/nate/.procmail.log LOGABSTRACT="all" VERBOSE="on" To my own .procmailrc and then watching the actual behaviour of procmail in the .procmail.log file when it processes inbound mail. The way you recommended only makes a mess in $HOME/Maildir and doesn't actually deliver mail. -- Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
