Well... That doesn't work quite as I had intended. The whole story is that the stock kmail that Mandrake 7.1 ships with has been doing strange things to my mail, and is generally buggy as heck. Plus a botched fetchmail run partways thru left me w/ several hundred duplicate messages. I finally got the latest stable version of kmail, plus the Kleopatra version... neither was an appreciable improvement for what I wanted. So I tried using Netscape Messenger. It's worked for years, and I've got the hotkey sequences pretty much hardwired by now. Suddenly it tells me that it cant get write permission to /var/spool/mail/monte for lock files, and I may need to change permissions to 01777 on that file/directory. I did that once, and it worked. I reinstalled for some unrelated reasons, and in this install, it doesn't matter if I chmod the directory or not, Netscape still refuses to get my new mail. Fine. Time for pine, the old standby. Now I try the command listed in Jari's procmail tips, referenced earlier in the thread, and it didn't quite work. I don't know if I need to tell procmail to split the inbox file and treat it like a digest when I feed it to it, but it isn't creating any of my list mailboxes or anything. And for somereason, now pine won't check new stuff in my spool. So I try mutt. It works, but procmail still isn't. I decided that I really don't want to settle for a cli mailer unless there is no other choice. It looks like I may have to append all these various mailboxes together, and feed them thru a duplicate nuking procmail recipe, and then just have Netscape sort the messages into mailboxes. What a PITA. And I really don't want to have to hunt down and delete manually the duplicates, so I hope I get procmail running right, soon. What a mess. Monte ===== "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBZZZZAAAAPPP!!!...much <snicker>" What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
