[TriLUG] help with procmail/postfix

[Tom Woods]

Thanks!  I'm yet another step closer.  I duplicated the recipe you posted,
with locking.  The email arrived, but simply disappeared.  procmail.log
showed the following:

>From thomaswoods at earthlink.net  Tue Jul 29 18:23:48 2003
 Subject: testnewprocrc
  Folder: /var/spool/mail/twoods                                          
1006
>From thomaswoods at earthlink.net  Tue Jul 29 18:24:31 2003
 Subject: Test Folder
  Folder: NewTest
1004

I did get it to work, but what I had to do to make it work is the following:

:0:
* ^Subject: Test Folder
/home/twoods/mail/NewTest

I'm wondering if it's normal to need the full path like this, or maybe I
have something misconfigured?

Thanks,

Tom


> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 08:59, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
>> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:33, Tom Woods wrote:
>> > Thanks for the global procmail suggestion, however I've actually
>> tried that as well.
>> >
>> > I've posted the files at:
>> >
>> > http://www.familyfunnies.com/main.cf
>> > http://www.familyfunnies.com/.procmailrc
>>
>> Do you have the $DELIVERTO macro defined?
>> That's a special variable that is setup on the TriLUG servers.  In
>> that case, it expands to a program called "dmail" (or actually, a
>> patched version called "dmail-trilug") that delivers to the IMAP
>> folders.
>>
>> If you don't have the specialized MBX setup that we're using on
>> TriLUG, just leave off the $DELIVERTO part and put the name of the
>> folder.  Procmail will just deliver locally to the folder in mbox
>> format.
>
> To clarify, you'd leave off both the pipe character and the $DELIVERTO.
> A more standard procmail recipe looks like this:
>
> :0
> * ^Subject: Test Folder
> NewTest
>
> In actuality, you will want to enable locking, so that multiple programs
> (or multiple instances of procmail) won't try to write to the "NewTest"
> foler at once.  This is done by adding a colon after the zero, so the
> recipe will look like:
>
> :0:
> * ^Subject: Test Folder
> NewTest
>
> Enabling locking is pretty necessary when you're using the standard
> 'mbox' format.  For other formats like Maildir or MBX, it's not
> necessary, at least from what I've heard.  (Locking doesn't make sense
> in the TriLUG setup because we're actually piping the mail through a
> program -- the $DELIVERTO program which is "dmail" -- instead of having
> procmail deliver the mail itself.)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jeremy
>
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