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corsair
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Location: Aachen, Germany
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 Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:16 pm Post subject: procmail creates directories, which it shouldn't create |
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Hi,
This is what I want to do:
My maildir is ~/.maildir/ . In this directory I have some subdirectories which are maildirs:
- ~/.maildir/inbox
- ~/.maildir/outbox
- ~/.maildir/gentoo
- etc.
so the directory .maildir looks like this:
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total 36
drwx------ 5 markus users 4096 Oct 31 11:39 gentoo
drwx------ 5 markus users 4096 Oct 31 13:28 inbox
drwx------ 5 markus users 4096 Sep 22 22:49 outbox
drwx------ 5 markus users 4096 Oct 31 09:32 postponed
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I fetch my mail using fetchmail and procmail with this command with this command:
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fetchmail -akv -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
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This works fine and procmail moves the mail in the correct dirs, but here is the problem: It creates the directories ~/.maildir/{new,cur,tmp} every time it fetches mail. They are empty... Now: How can I avoid that procmail creates those directories?
Here is my .procmailrc:
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MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir/inbox/
DEFAULT=$HOME/.maildir/inbox/
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmaillog
LOGABSTRACT=no
#VERBOSE=on...is only used for debugging
VERBOSE=off
FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
NL="
"
#catch duplicates using formail
:0 Whc: .msgid.lock
| $FORMAIL -D 16384 .msgid.cache
#catch any other gentoo mail
:0
* ^From:.*gentoo.org
$MAILDIR/../gentoo/
:0
* .*
$MAILDIR/../inbox/
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corsair
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lindril
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:50 am Post subject: |
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I have *exactly* the same problem. My config and commands match yours exactly. And so does the problem.  |
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UberLord
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Joined: 18 Sep 2003
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Location: Blighty
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| Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: procmail creates directories, which it shouldn't create |
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| corsair wrote: |
This works fine and procmail moves the mail in the correct dirs, but here is the problem: It creates the directories ~/.maildir/{new,cur,tmp} every time it fetches mail. They are empty... Now: How can I avoid that procmail creates those directories? |
~/.maildir is your default inbox - that's where the mail starts which i why they are created.
I maybe wrong, but it makes sense |
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Stok
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Joined: 03 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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It is this change in the gentoo portage patch that causes it:
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-#define MAILSPOOLDIR "/var/spool/mail/" /* watch the trailing / */
+#define MAILSPOOLDIR "" /* watch the trailing / */
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If you emerge with the mbox USE-flag set, the patch will not apply, and the directorys are not created. |
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