Re: Introduction to Maildir (was Re: mutt and mh/procmail)

[Bennett Todd]

Note to the procmail-list folks, the mutt list grew this thread that
spawned the question, how to deliver to Maildirs safely from an old,
musty, non-maildir-supporting procmail. Various suggestions were
bashed back and forth, and after I read the thread it looked to me
like we were closing in on something actually [potentially] useful.
Supposing a user's ISP won't upgrade their procmail, or allow them
to install a nice tight efficient compact maildir.c executable, how
about something like:

        # Needed only once, in the preamble of the procmailrc
        XXX=`date +%S`.$$.$HOST

        # other recipes may come here

        :0
        * ^Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        {
                :0 fw
                |cat >mutt/tmp/$XXX

                :0 a
                |mv mutt/tmp/$XXX mutt/new/$XXX
        }

-Bennett

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