Bug 5630

Summary:	procmail and ~/.maildir
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Khayyam <cselkirk>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Khayyam <cselkirk>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	g2boojum
Priority:	High
Version:	1.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Khayyam 2002-07-26 19:57:16 UTC

When using procmail DEFAULT is not being read from either /etc/procmailrc
or ~/.procmailrc, at least this is the case with delivery to MAILDIR style mailboxes.

Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org> writes (in Changelog):

"Thanks to Jose Fonseca procmail now uses /etc/procmailrc to determine the
default mailbox instead of patching the source."

Using DEFAULT=$HOME/.maildir/ i get:

procmail: Couldn't create "/var/spool/mail/unit" (where "unit" is $USER)

This suggests this isn't the case.

The value MAILSPOOLDIR ("/var/spool/mail/") seems to be used as
MAILSPOOLHOME isn't defined (see: src/authenticate.c). In fact, for
Maildir delivery MAILSPOOLDIR shouldn't be defined only MAILSPOOLHOME
(at least that the way i have always installed procmail for use with
Maildir).

The only solution i can think of is to patch authenticate.c based on
USE="maildir" (as mbox won't be an issue). This is somewhat problematic
as most users won't have maildir (or mbox for that matter) defined.

I plan on bumping the ebuild to r3 (and masking for the present time).

Comment 1 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-24 14:41:22 UTC

-r4 has been in portage for some time (unmasked).