Subject: Sorting Mail using Procmail

From: [email-masked] (Nischal Sheth)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 03:56:32 GMT

I am trying to sort mail into different folders using procmail. I have set
up the .forward file and the .procmailrc correctly (I think). The .procmailrc
looks like this:

MAILDIR=$HOME/mail

#Directory for storing procmail log and rc files
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log

:0:
* ^Subject:.*test
IN.testing

Even though I created the folder IN.testing in the "Incoming Message Folders",
any mail with "test" in the subject goes into a folder called IN.testing in
the Folder-Collection (mail/[]). As a result I cannot step thru all new
mail using the TAB key. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

TIA,
Nischal.

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From: [email-masked] (Ron Ross)
Date: 31 Jul 1995 23:29:06 GMT

Nischal Sheth ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I am trying to sort mail into different folders using procmail. I have set
: up the .forward file and the .procmailrc correctly (I think). The .procmailrc
: looks like this:

: MAILDIR=$HOME/mail

: #Directory for storing procmail log and rc files
: PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
: LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log

: :0:
: * ^Subject:.*test
: IN.testing

: Even though I created the folder IN.testing in the "Incoming Message Folders",
: any mail with "test" in the subject goes into a folder called IN.testing in
: the Folder-Collection (mail/[]). As a result I cannot step thru all new
: mail using the TAB key. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

     You need to create your incoming message folders in a different 
directory than your folder collection. Try something like:

MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
-or-
MAILDIR=$HOME/Incoming

    Then set that up in your incoming-folders variable in your .pinerc
file.

Good Luck...

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