Subject: Procmail and Pine examples ?

From: Bill Schoolcraft <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:14:18 -0800 (PST)

Hello Family,

I was wondering if anyone has some examples of a ~/.procmailrc file 
I could see, I'm a bit confused with some examples such as:

MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox

Pine as we know creates $HOME/Mail and it just holds a series of 
files called:

 .drafts.index                                    
 .inbox.index                                     
 .inbox.index.sorted                              
 .outbox.index                                    
 .sent-mail.index                                 
 .trash.index                                     
  drafts     
  from 
  inbox                                           
  outbox                                                    
  sent-mail                                                 
  trash

And the directory called $HOME/mail contains all of Pine's folders, 
so with that (slightly) understood is the above MAILDIR and DEFAULT 
correct ?

I'm using RedHat-7.2

TIA

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:49:11 -0800 (PST)

*** Bill Schoolcraft ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list on Nov...:

:) I was wondering if anyone has some examples of a ~/.procmailrc file
:) I could see, I'm a bit confused with some examples such as:
:)
:) MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
:) DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox

I don't use those, so I can't help you there.

:) Pine as we know creates $HOME/Mail and it just holds a series of
:) files called:
:)
:)  .drafts.index .inbox.index .inbox.index.sorted .outbox.index
:) .sent-mail.index .trash.index drafts from inbox outbox sent-mail trash

Pine does not creat $HOME/Mail, that looks like what Netscape creates.
Pine does not have those folders.

:) And the directory called $HOME/mail contains all of Pine's folders,

Yes, but only those where you save messages. You can add more folders
there, and some people add incoming-folders there, but that's another
story. The min use of this directory is to save read messages, not to
receive messages there, although, I'm sure some people think differently
about it.

:) so with that (slightly) understood is the above MAILDIR and DEFAULT
:) correct ?

Go to google.com, enter "procmail help". I'm sure there will be more than
100 hits explaining how to set up procmail. Isn't the web great?

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Eduardo
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