Re: Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
Your two emails were a help, but opened up some new questions: Executing install-mh in an xterm failed because install-mh was not found. I used find /usr -name 'install-mh' and found *two* versions. One was in /usr/bin/mh . I take this to be the modern equivalent of the old /usr/local/nmh/bin. So

Re: Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:38:21PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I once had my email working nicely, but over the last few years > the setup has decayed. I am now running wheezy with fetchmail to > get email from my ISP, exim4 to send outgoing email to my ISP, and > do other things locally, and pro

Re: Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
In debian dpkg-reconfigure nmh may do what install-nmh does for non-debian systems. I read up on nmh from the nmh website.On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Paul E Condon wrote: > I once had my email working nicely, but over the last few years > the setup has decayed. I am now running wheezy with fetchmail t

Re: Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you runn install-nmh, then nmh will make the directories it needs and perhaps start working. I use nmh and like it better than mbox because when malware hits a message that message with offending garbage can be sacrificed without the loss of your entire collection of messages. Hope this hel

Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
I once had my email working nicely, but over the last few years the setup has decayed. I am now running wheezy with fetchmail to get email from my ISP, exim4 to send outgoing email to my ISP, and do other things locally, and procmail running in my $home. I have no interest in setting up system-wide

Re: procmailrc question

2003-09-15 Thread kmark
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > If you don't create a directory called $HOME/mail/debian-user, then > procmail will automatically save mail to an mbox by that name. If > there's a directory there, it'll default to a maildir (erm, as in the > mailbox format, as distinct from $MAILDIR).

Re: procmailrc question

2003-09-15 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
On 03-09-15 03:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi DU, > I'm new to procmail and I wondered if you can point me in the right > direction. > this is my .procmailrc > -- > PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin > MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #you'd better make sure it exists > DEFAULT=$

Re: procmailrc question

2003-09-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:10:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm new to procmail and I wondered if you can point me in the right > direction. > this is my .procmailrc > -- > PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin > MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #you'd better make sure it exists > D

procmailrc question

2003-09-15 Thread kmark
Hi DU, I'm new to procmail and I wondered if you can point me in the right direction. this is my .procmailrc -- PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #you'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$HOME/mbox #completely optional LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommen