[Sussex] Grey Hairs and Procmails

[Neil Ford]

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 05:04  pm, Nik Butler wrote:

> So I upgraded from bogo std mbox to Maildir format mail now im 
> wondering
> how to get procmail to read my inbox at the end of the day and file
> stuff read or unread to respective folders.
>
> my procmail recipes worked just fine on mbox but im a little unstuck in
> the maildir format......
>
>
> /usr/local/bin/formail -s /usr/local/bin/procmail ~/Mail/procmailrc
> <~/Mail/$1
>
>
>
> where $1 was originally the mbox format mail folder.
>
>
> So how do I rewrite that ? cause I assume its gotta read the maildir
> formatted stuff which is loads of emails in there own files.....
>
>

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2001-08/0029.html seems 
to mention something about putting a trailing / on the end (from a 
quick google search).

Personally I've never tried it with Maildirs, only because they ain't 
standard.

Obviously check out http://www.procmail.org (you have already done that 
haven't you?).

Neil.