From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Jul  3 14:26:51 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC5037B401
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu,  3 Jul 2003 14:26:51 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net
	(65-37-69-83.bras01.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [65.37.69.83])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932064400F
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Thu,  3 Jul 2003 14:26:50 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net)
Received: from tagalong (unknown [165.107.42.110])
	by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP
	id DFE813BF35A; Thu,  3 Jul 2003 07:27:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <023f01c341a9$d0b92960$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To: "Paul Chvostek" <paul+fbsd@it.ca>,
	<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "parv" <parv_fm@emailgroups.net>
References:
	<20030703161246.GA67762@mail.it.ca><00de01c34186$445cc760$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
	<20030703173754.GA7425@mail.it.ca>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:26:49 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
Subject: Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 21:26:51 -0000

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Chvostek" <paul+fbsd@it.ca>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 10:37 AM


> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:12:22AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> >
> > :0:
> > * ^List-Id:[^<]+<freebsd-\/[^.]+
> > Maildir/FreeBSD/$MATCH/new
> >
> > And I'm getting messages like this in my procmail log:
> >
> > procmail: Assigning
"PATH=/home/drew/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin"
> > procmail: Lock failure on "Maildir/FreeBSD/alpha/new.lock"
> > procmail: Error while writing to "Maildir/FreeBSD/alpha/new"
> >
> > OK, I assume the error is because Maildir/FreeBSD/alpha/new does not
> > exist.  How can I get procmail to create the directory it needs?
>
> As you no doubt read on the procmail manpage:
>
> |                  If the mailbox name ends  in  "/",  then  this
> |      directory  is presumed to be a maildir folder; i.e., proc-
> |      mail will deliver the message to a file in a  subdirectory
> |      named  "tmp"  and  rename  it  to be inside a subdirectory
> |      named "new".
>
> Now ... I obviously don't use maildir format, but to me, this would
> imply a format something like:
>
>   :0
>   * ^List-Id:[^<]+<freebsd-\/[^.]+
>   FreeBSD/$MATCH/
>
> I'm assuming that the leading "Maildir/" is redundant, as is the
pointer
> to the "new" folder.

Thanks for pointing out my oversight and all of the help so far.  I've
added the "/" and now my recipe is:

:0
* ^List-Id:[^<]+<freebsd-\/[^.]+
/Maildir/FreeBSD/$MATCH/

However I get these messages from the procmail log:

procmail: Matched "test"
procmail: Match on "^List-Id:[^<]+<freebsd-\/[^.]+"
procmail: Unable to treat as directory "/Maildir/FreeBSD/test"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/Maildir/FreeBSD/test"
procmail: Opening "/Maildir/FreeBSD/test"
procmail: Error while writing to "/Maildir/FreeBSD/test"

I've tried without the leading "/", without the Maildir, and without
"/Maildir/" but I keep getting the same type of error.  Maildir is owned
by me and is mode 700.  I tried changing to 777 but that didn't help so
I put it back to 700.  According to the man page, the directory should
be created if it doesn't exist.  From the man page:

If the mailbox is specified  to  be an  MH  folder  or  maildir  folder,
procmail will create the necessary directories if they don't exist,
rather than treat  the  mailbox  as  a non-existent filename.

I feel I am close.  Can anyone enlighten me and point out what I'm
missing?

Thanks,

Drew