[ingo] My ingo filters don't seem to be working

[Kevin Hanser]

Hmmm... My /etc/procmailrc currently has the following in it:

# Use mbox-style mailbox in /var/spool/mail
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME

...
Which seems to be pointing to my inbox, rather than where my mail 
folders end up
going.  If I change this value... will procmail still know where my 
inbox is (it
actually is in /var/spool/mail/<username>)?

thx

k


Quoting Ben Chavet <ben at chavet.net>:

> Ok, this makes sense now.  You are going to want to modify the procmail
> $DEFAULT
>   variable.  There are a couple of ways of doing this.  The way I do it is by
> using the /etc/procmailrc global procmail config file, adding the following:
>
>    ### Using mbox ###
>    DEFAULT=/home/$LOGNAME/mail
>
> or
>
>    ### Using maildir ###
>    DEFAULT=$HOME/.maildir/
>
> The other way of doing it is by specifying $DEFAULT in the
> ingo/config/backends.php server config.  I haven't actually used this method,
> and it's been a long time since I've looked at any ingo source code, so
> I don't
> have any pointers on this, other than I'm pretty sure it can be done.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> --Ben
>
> Quoting Kevin Hanser <ingo at hanser.org>:
>
>> Ok, that seems to have helped a little bit.
>>
>> However, once I did as you suggested, my mail just started
>> disappearing!  Didn't
>> show up in inbox, or any other folder.
>>
>> I checked my mail logs to make sure that the mail was being received and
>> processed, and sure enough it was.  I then looked in my home 
>> directory, and I
>> found the problem.  With the procmail recipies that ingo is creating, it's
>> delivering the messages into mbox files _directly in my home
>> directory_.  On my
>> machine, my mail folders all reside in a subdir of my home directory, mail.
>> Ingo however is just dumping them into folders in my main home directory.
>>
>> I'm using dovecot as my IMAP server, and according to the IMP docs for
>> dovecot,
>> you set the default mail folder to ''.  (since dovecot takes care of that
>> itself in its config I guess, and places them into the mail subdir).  Could
>> this be why ingo is delivering to my home directory instead of the mail
>> directory?  Is it getting that setting of '' from the IMP setup, and then
>> assuming that my mail folders should be there too?
>>
>> For now, I have manually edited my .procmailrc to add mail/ to the
>> front of each
>> folder that it's to be dropped into, and that seems to do the trick.
>>
>> It seems that maybe ingo needs an option to allow the user to specify what
>> subdir your mail folders reside in, so that it writes the procmail 
>> recipies to
>> get the messages in the right place....  Maybe have the option of using
>> the IMP
>> default, or manually typing it in yourself...?
>>
>> k
>>
>> Quoting Ben Chavet <ben at chavet.net>:
>>
>>> Make sure to check the box "Stop checking if this rule matches". 
>>> Otherwis, a
>>> copy of everything will still end up in your inbox.
>>>
>>> --Ben
>>>
>>> Quoting Kevin Hanser <ingo at hanser.org>:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Just recently installed the newest IMP 4.0, and with it Ingo.  I 
>>>> like how ingo
>>>> can interface w/procmail so as to filter my mail before it gets to 
>>>> the inbox,
>>>> but for some reason my filters don't seem to be working.
>>>>
>>>> For example, I created a filter for the IMP mailing list that says:
>>>>
>>>> if
>>>> Subject Contains [imp]
>>>> or
>>>> to field is "imp2 at hanser.org"
>>>> or
>>>> to field is "imp at lists.horde.org"
>>>> then
>>>> deliver it to the IMP folder.
>>>>
>>>> I saved the filter, and it created this in my .procmailrc:
>>>>
>>>> ##### IMP List #####
>>>> :0 c
>>>> * ^Subject:.*\[imp\]
>>>> IMP
>>>>
>>>> :0 Ec
>>>> * ^To:.*imp2 at hanser\.org
>>>> IMP
>>>>
>>>> :0 Ec
>>>> * ^To:.*imp at lists\.horde\.org
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, I've never used procmail recipies before, so I 
>>>> can't tell if this
>>>> is valid or not.  It looks OK to me, from what I've read about 
>>>> procmail, but my
>>>> mail isn't getting delivered to the proper folder... it all just 
>>>> ends up in my
>>>> inbox.
>>>>
>>>> I checked my sendmail config to make sure it was sending mail thru 
>>>> procmail, and
>>>> it seems ok.  My mailer lines @ the bottom of my sendmail.mc look 
>>>> like this;
>>>>
>>>> MAILER(smtp)dnl
>>>> MAILER(procmail)dnl
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas on why my filters aren't working?  This may be more of a 
>>>> procmail
>>>> problem than an ingo problem, but I was hoping that someone here 
>>>> might have
>>>> more insight into the inner workings of procmail than I do :)
>>>>
>>>> any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> thx!
>>>>
>>>> k
>>>>
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