Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 17:48:32 -0400 From: Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd@it.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists? Message-ID: <20030703214832.GA27829@mail.it.ca> In-Reply-To: <023f01c341a9$d0b92960$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <20030703173754.GA7425@mail.it.ca> <023f01c341a9$d0b92960$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:26:49PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > > :0 > > * ^List-Id:[^<]+<freebsd-\/[^.]+ > > FreeBSD/$MATCH/ > > 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/ You're storing your Maildir in the root directory of the server? > 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" It looks as if procmail doesn't have permissions to create directories in the root directory of your server. That's a Good Thing. > 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. That's the right mode, but think about where the directory is, and where procmail wants to find out. Look in the procmail documentation (manpage for procmailrc) for variables like $DEFAULT, $MAILDIR, $HOME, etc. > 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? Remember that paths that start with a / are absolute, and all other paths are relative to $MAILDIR. -- Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca> it.canada http://www.it.ca/ Free PHP web hosting! http://www.it.ca/web/
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