don't you find the file structure of this just horrid though?
To have new/ tmp/ cur/ for every mailing list? I would like to and would
perfer to use maildir for the mailing lists, I don't know why...
What are the advantages to this... I have all my mailing lists still
going to mbox, whereas anything that doesn't pass through the filters
goes to Maildir format. I would like to see the scripts that you have in
both procmail and your backing procedure.
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:03:19AM -0500, Timothy Legant muttered:
| On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:48:38PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
| > I've finally taken the plunge and put qmail on my personal system after
| > having used it on my server forever. I've got a rather strange mix
| > here and some odd errors...
|
| Cool!
|
| As others have noted, you can deliver to Maildirs directly from
| procmail. The suggestions I've seen simply make the default delivery go
| to your spool, which is a Maildir (named Maildir).
|
| As another option, you can make each of your mailing lists use a Maildir
| for delivery. I do this and am quite happy with procmail and Mutt's
| behavior. The clue for procmail is that the delivery instruction needs
| to end with a '/' (no quotes).
|
| I have a $HOME/Mail directory with a number of Maildir subdirectories,
| such as Mutt-Users, Inbox, etc. to which procmail directs the incoming
| mail. The qmail command 'maildirmake' will create these for you. The 'c'
| command in Mutt works perfectly, taking me to Maildirs with new mail and
| correctly marking the New messages.
|
| The value of this is that using a simple bash or perl script run once
| weekly from cron, you can move all files older than a certain date
| (since each email is in a separate file) to an temporary directory, tar
| and gzip or [insert your favorite archiver here] and archive these
| things. If you want to get a little fancier, each time the script runs
| it can update a master archive file, either per list or 1 gigantic
| thing. The file-oriented nature of Maildirs makes this trivial.
|
| Just another example of qmail/procmail/Mutt flexibility...
|
| Tim
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