Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-11-01 Thread Mikko Hänninen
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

Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-30 Thread Jason Helfman
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

Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-30 Thread Jason Helfman
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

Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-30 Thread Ashton
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

Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-28 Thread Ben Reser
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

Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-28 Thread Jason Helfman
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

Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-28 Thread Rafael A. Schmitt
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

Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-28 Thread Jason Helfman
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

Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-28 Thread Jack McKinney
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

Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-27 Thread Jason Helfman
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

Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-27 Thread Jason Helfman
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

Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-27 Thread Thomas Roessler
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. ^^

Re: MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-27 Thread Jack McKinney
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

MAILDIR, MBOX

2000-10-27 Thread Jason Helfman
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

Re: change from Maildir->mbox

1999-05-10 Thread David DeSimone
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

Re: change from Maildir->mbox

1999-05-10 Thread Bennett Todd
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

Re: change from Maildir->mbox

1999-05-10 Thread Attila Csosz
> > 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

Re: change from Maildir->mbox

1999-05-10 Thread David DeSimone
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

Re: change from Maildir->mbox

1999-05-10 Thread David DeSimone
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

Re: change from Maildir->mbox

1999-05-10 Thread Attila Csosz
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

Re: change from Maildir->mbox

1999-05-10 Thread Jeffrey Haas
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

Re: change from Maildir->mbox

1999-05-10 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
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

Re: change from Maildir->mbox

1999-05-10 Thread Leon Breedt
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 -- --

Re: change from Maildir->mbox

1999-05-09 Thread Bennett Todd
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

change from Maildir->mbox

1999-05-09 Thread Attila Csosz
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