Mark Fletcher [2016-10-22 14:45:19+09] wrote: > The command I am running is: > > archivemail --output-dir=/home/mark/Mail/ -d 31 --delete /var/mail/mark > > My mailbox is in /var/mail/mark. I didn't choose to put it there, that > is where it went when the system was installed. I am not sure if that is > thanks to the default settings of exim4, mutt, or something else. > > Now /var/mail is owned by root:mail and had access 775. /var/mail/mark > is owned by mark:mail and has permissions 660. > > Whenever I ran archivemail as mark, it was complaining that it did not > have write access to /var/mail (it wanted to write a lock file) and then > proceeded to say it was deleting 0 messages.
You can configure Exim to deliver mail to mailbox format in ~/Maildir
directory. Just run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" and you can choose
the delivery option. Note that if you use Procmail and the file
~/.procmailrc exists then its default is to deliver to /var/mail/$USER.
If ~/.procmailrc exists you also need to change its delivery options.
There are different options for that:
1. Edit ~/.procmailrc file and put the line "DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/",
probably at the beginning. It must have trailing "/" because in
Procmail config the trailing character defines the mailbox format
(maildir format in this case).
2. Make Procmail's last rule deliver to your preferred default:
:0
$HOME/Maildir/
Also, you'll probably want to configure Mutt to read from ~/Maildir
directory:
set mbox_type=Maildir
set spoolfile=~/Maildir
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