On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 at 04:44PM -0600, Tim Wilson wrote: > I've been messing around with mutt a bit lately and in the process I > think I've converted my mailbox format unknowingly. My home directory > has a mail *and* Mail directory as well as an mbox file. mbox appears to > contain all the messages that aren't otherwise filed in their own > folders (i.e., it's my "inbox"). The mail folder contains all the mail > folders I've made. Well, out of the box, Pine uses ~/mail and Mutt uses ~/Mail. The ~/mbox file is Pine. > Now when I use pine I get a message: "Moved xxxx bytes of new mail to > /home/wilson/mbox from /var/mail/wilson." > > So presumably I've somehow converted myself from maildir to mbox > format. Is that correct? What MTA are you using, and how is it set up? /var/mail/wilson is probably just an mbox file where your MTA puts incoming mail. I think the usual default configuration of Debian and RedHat (and probably other distros) is mbox files in /var/mail or /var/spool/mail or whatever. My guess is that there's no maildir stuff going on, and it's all just mbox files. Someone else should back me up on this or correct me... > I'd like to set up some procmail rules. Should I reference > /var/mail/wilson or /home/wilson/mbox? You either have to configure your MTA to talk to procmail, or use a .forward file to have your incoming mail fed to procmail. I think you could use either file you mentioned above, but Mutt will probably automatically look for /var/mail/wilson. Often, if you have a .procmailrc file in your home directory, your MTA will automatically use procmail. It's kinda like magic. And if none of your procmail rules match a particular email, it will probably get automatically delivered to /var/mail/wilson. Hope this helps... Dan -- | 4699 BDCB B1A5 28B6 7F8A F8DF EB6A BC2A B0A1 99BF (GPG) | Dan Drake <drake+tclug at lemongecko.org> | http://lemongecko.org/drake/ | public key: email <drake+gpg at lemongecko.org> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020115/4191eaba/attachment.pgp