problem with fetchmail/procmail/mutt

thegarbageman

I am having a problem reading my mail with mutt. I am using ssmtp, fetchmail and procmail. I am using fetchmail to retreive messages from a POP account, each of which are ending up as a file named msg.???? in my ~/.maildir folder. When I run mutt, it does not display a list of these messages, as I imagine they need to be placed in the ~/.maildir/new folder. I have read both the Gentoo Desktop Config Guide and have read every forum thread with both "mutt" and "fetchmail" in the search results. And I have searched Google. Does anyone know what I have missed?

rac · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 8:35 am Post subject:

Moving from Off The Wall, which is a zany discussion forum, to Networking and Security, as I think email qualifies as a networking issue.
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blunted · Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 4:50 pm Post subject:

I'm also having this issue.

I read that the way you specify the folder the mail should delivered to is important (the / on the end of IN-gentoo is supposed to mean I use the maildir format). My procmail recipe is as follows...

thegarbageman · Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2002 9:34 pm Post subject: procmail

add this to ~/.procmailrc (At least this is how I took care of it)

Xor · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 144

this may work.... but it's playin wrong... this wourld mean that "new" is a mailbox file... in fact it's a subdir in a maildir... thich in general you don't have to bother with.... as said before just append a / at the end of your maildir and all should be fine.... I use postfix-smtp/courier-imap/mutt/fetchmail/squirrel/procmail (on OpenBSD) and it work's real fine....

scottro · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 5:21 pm Post subject:

Sounds a bit wacky there.

I have a doc post called Mutt and the Single User which might be of use at

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1085

It's not for use with Postfix, but still might have some value--somwhere in the middle is a part about Procmail folders and such

Scott

adv · n00b Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 1

Could you please post your .procmailrc, .muttrc and .fetchmailrc files?

Some of the key things to have in your .procmailrc file would be:

blunted · Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 5:32 pm Post subject:

Specifying $MAILDIR in my procmail recipies for each rule fixed the problem, I'll have to wait and see if my next gentoo email get's delivered to the right place. General email does now.

Before

zpiro · n00b Joined: 26 Jun 2002 Posts: 26 Location: Norway

Im using procmail fetchmail ssmtp and mutt.
Im using the same ssmt.conf and revaliases files.
Same with .procmail and .fetchmail files....
as i were with gentoo 1.2

Ive modified them after what has been sugested here, and hasnt worked for me. im still getting mail in the msg.xxx format. or MH format?

So The only things thats different is that, it worked with gentoo 1.2 for me.
And when i installed gentoo 1.4_rc1 it broke.

zojas · Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2002 10:36 pm Post subject:

I had this problem too! the solution for me was to note that the procmail emerge was failing to create a /etc/procmailrc file.

here's its contents:

ArturoC[R2] · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2002 Posts: 1 Location: Houston, TX