Jason Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 30 Oct 2000:
> I went back to version 1.2.5i and I get the same error:
> /home/jhelfman/Mail/backup-inbox is not a mailbox.
This means that the given file was not recognised to be any of the known
mail folder formats.
The most common way you can ge
It's already being shoved into an mbox file!
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:56:14PM -0600, Ashton muttered:
| Jason Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
|
| > So this is my current .qmail file:
| >
| > #./Maildir/
| > |/usr/bin/procmail
| >
| > So what would I add here?
|
| |preline cat >>mbox
|
| > I a
I went back to version 1.2.5i and I get the same error:
/home/jhelfman/Mail/backup-inbox is not a mailbox.
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 05:11:31PM -0700, Ben Reser muttered:
| On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 03:13:47PM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
| > When I open mutt to the file, or through change directory
Jason Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> So this is my current .qmail file:
>
> #./Maildir/
> |/usr/bin/procmail
>
> So what would I add here?
|preline cat >>mbox
> I am confused. I thought you can only have one command in there.
all sorts of silly things work in .qmail ...
man dot-qmail
Howe
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 03:13:47PM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
> When I open mutt to the file, or through change directory inside of
> mutt, this is what I get.
>
> /home/jhelfman/Mail/backup-inbox is not a mailbox.
Well from your headers you're running 1.3.9 which is a development version. So
I did last night. It is a mail file.
Mail/backup-inbox: RFC 822 mail text
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 02:16:48PM -0700, Ben Reser thus spat:
| On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 08:10:02AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
| > I know, but when I do this, and I did do this, it says that backup-inbox
| > is not a mai
how can i set my maildir?
i want to save my e-mail under ~/mail/inbox
butt when i start mutt i receive this message
/home/rafael/mail/inbox - file not found
i can only read from /var/spool/mail/rafael
here's my .procmailrc
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin
SHELL=/bin/bash
VERBOSE=off
MAILDIR=$HOM
I know, but when I do this, and I did do this, it says that backup-inbox
is not a mail file.
I have
set mbox_type=MAILDIR
?? something to that extent, in my .muttrc
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 12:03:13AM -0700, Ben Reser thus spat:
| At the top of your procmail recipies add:
| :0 c
| $HOME/Mail/b
Big Brother tells me that Jason Helfman wrote:
> So this is my current .qmail file:
>
>
> #./Maildir/
> |/usr/bin/procmail
>
> So what would I add here?
#./Maildir/
./Mailbox
|/usr/bin/procmail
Shouldn't that last line be
| preline /usr/bin/procmail
?
I don't use procmail anym
I get mixed up sometimes
:)
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 07:52:36PM +0200, Thomas Roessler muttered:
| On 2000-10-27 12:39:44 -0500, Jack McKinney wrote:
|
| >> I have Qmail and am filtering with Procmail to MAILDIR format,
| >> however I would like to backup mail very easily by having all
| >> inc
So this is my current .qmail file:
#./Maildir/
|/usr/bin/procmail
So what would I add here?
I am confused. I thought you can only have one command in there. I want
to have an mbox file that is named $HOME/Mail/backup-inbox
Please help.
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 12:39:44PM -0500, Jack McKinney
On 2000-10-27 12:39:44 -0500, Jack McKinney wrote:
>> I have Qmail and am filtering with Procmail to MAILDIR format,
>> however I would like to backup mail very easily by having all
>> incoming mail to go a backup-inbox in MBOX format, and use
>> Roessler's compression patch to view it.
^^
Big Brother tells me that Jason Helfman wrote:
> I have Qmail and am filtering with Procmail to MAILDIR format, however I
> would like to backup mail very easily by having all incoming mail to go
> a backup-inbox in MBOX format, and use Roessler's compression patch to
> view it.
>
> Is this possi
I have Qmail and am filtering with Procmail to MAILDIR format, however I
would like to backup mail very easily by having all incoming mail to go
a backup-inbox in MBOX format, and use Roessler's compression patch to
view it.
Is this possible?
How would I define the mailbox format in mutt?
Would
Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> And a helpful tip for converting Maildir folders for mbox: use the
> formail utility that accompanies procmail.
Since this is the Mutt list, I am surprised that you didn't suggest
using Mutt! Simply open the maildir folder, make sure mbox_type is set
1999-05-10-19:09:27 David DeSimone:
> Bennett Todd:
> > And a helpful tip for converting Maildir folders for mbox: use the
> > formail utility that accompanies procmail.
>
> Since this is the Mutt list, I am surprised that you didn't suggest
> using Mutt! Simply open the maildir folder, make su
> > 2. set folder=~/Maildir # where i keep my mailboxes
> > what to be in this case?
>
Starting mutt I get an error message:
/home/attila/Maildir is not a mailbox
In this case Maildir is a normal directory and it is empty( no mail yet )
Thanks
Attila
Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> /home/attila/Maildir is not a mailbox
>
> In this case Maildir is a normal directory and it is empty( no mail yet )
An empty directory is not a mailbox.
An empty maildir has a "cur", "new", and "tmp" directory in it, all
empty.
An empty mbox is a zer
Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I remove from my .procmailrc the trailing '/', so I get
> .
> folder1
>
Do you have a MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir line in your .procmailrc, to tell
procmail the location of folder1?
> Should Iset up the folder variable to?:
> set folder=~/Maildir/fo
No...
I'd like to use mbox, not Maildir format.
I comment out the mbox_type line:
# set mbox_type=Maildir
I have procmail rules, like
folder1/
.
folder2/
...
I remove from my .procmailrc the trailing '/', so I get
.
folder1
I have in my Maildir named directory( normal dir
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 01:49:23PM +0200, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> BTW, I've never had a mailfile corrupted with mbox even if
> at times some of them have been from 5-10 mb.
I can second that.
I've had a mbox format mailbox that was 4G - 99% of which was a
sparse file of all zeros. (One of o
Quoting Leon Breedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Attila Csosz spake thus:
>
> > I'd like to change from Maildir to mbox. What should I do?
> don't do it! maildir is infinitely better :)
If you're on a standalone system what are the advantages
then ? I tried the maildir format for a while and opening
Attila Csosz spake thus:
> I'd like to change from Maildir to mbox. What should I do?
don't do it! maildir is infinitely better :)
> using exim: what to be this in this case?
i use exim, without any special sendmail= option.
-leon
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1999-05-09-19:09:11 Attila Csosz:
> I'd like to change from Maildir to mbox. What should I do?
If you want to make that change, well, OK. I'm very glad to have changed in
the other direction.
> 1. Which type of mbox_type should I set?
Just comment out the mbox_type line; the default is mbox. Th
I'd like to change from Maildir to mbox. What should I do?
1. Which type of mbox_type should I set?
2. set folder=~/Maildir # where i keep my mailboxes
what to be in this case?
3. set sendmail="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject" # how to deliver mail
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