HI
Thanks you So Much for that information
I Must also apologize about my email, there where allot of stressful things
happening and the email was just adding to it, Once again thanks and sorry
regards
Dan York wrote:
> David,
>
> As others have said, people *try* to answer questions on this list, but
> there is no guarantee that anyone will be able to help.
>
> > Firstly i am aware that you are able to sort email into various folders
> > that i have created using procmail with a .procmailrc file, is this the
> > case with the way e-smith is set up or is there a different mail
> > delivery program being used?
>
> You *can* use procmail to sort messages on the server. Each user who
> is going to be using procmail to sort MUST have shell access on the e-smith
> server. They also must have a valid .procmailrc file with appropriate
> recipes. All folders into which messages are to be sorted need to be
> created ahead of time. Finally, to make qmail, the delivery agent that
> e-smith uses, know that it should use procmail, you need to create a
> '.qmail' file in the user's home directory with this line:
>
> | procmail ~/.procmailrc
>
> (the first character is a pipe '|' character). Now qmail will pass all
> messages for the user to procmail which will sort them into the appropriate
> folders.
>
> This is *server-side* mail sorting, versus the *client-side* mail sorting
> typically done in Netscape or Outlook.
>
> On that note, do realize that programs like Netscape may not "play nice"
> with procmail sorting, since they may maintain their own indices of each
> mail folder, and may get confused my procmail putting messages into the
> folders. I gave up on using Netscape (as an IMAP client) with procmail,
> as I was losing messages due to Netscape's indexing. I use the text
> email program 'mutt' now, and it works fine as an IMAP client against a
> server where the messages are being sorted via procmail. (I use mutt
> from the Linux desktop where I work. It reads the messages via IMAP
> from the e-smith server on our network.)
>
> Note also that the e-smith IMAP server stores messages in 'Maildir' format.
> Given that procmail will work with either Maildir or standard UNIX mailbox
> format, you have to clue procmail in to the fact that it is working with
> Maildir. The way to do that is to end all folders with a trailing '/'
> character, as in the example (from my .procmailrc):
>
> :0:
> * ^TO.*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> $MAILDIR/devinfo/
>
> > Also if Procmail is being used are there any example of the setup or an
> > e-smith how to that i can look at?
>
> Unfortunately I do not know of any examples that are out there that I
> can point you to. Several of us here at e-smith, inc., do use
> procmail for sorting, but the only description I can give you is what
> I wrote above.
>
> No one has created a HOWTO. It is certainly on our internal 'wishlist'
> of HOWTO documents, but I have no idea when I or others here would be
> able to write something up. (Contributions are welcome! :-)
>
> Regards,
> Dan
>
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