UsingMutt

UsingMutt BY Widgeteye

larrywyb/at/widgeteye.homeip.net

This is how I use Mutt and procmail. Whether it is the accepted way I don't know but it 'works' for me.

in the .forward file I have;

"|/usr/bin/procmail f | exit 75 #myusername"

#2) "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail f | exit 75 #myusername"

For some reason the accepted line (#2) wouldn't work, I don't know if it's because I use exim as mta or what but the line above that did work.

I have an executable file that calls Mutt, in that file I have;

#!/bin/bash

formail -s procmail < /var/spool/mail/myusername

rm /var/spool/mail/myusername

mutt -y

Check man mutt to figure out the -y option.

In the .muttrc you need the following lines;

set folder=$HOME/mail #Make sure this directory exists

mailboxes =almost-certainly-spam

mailboxes =from #optional

mailboxes =mbox

mailboxes =probably-spam

You'll notice these mailboxes match a couple of the mailboxes in the .procmailrc file. REMEMBER, every time you change a mailbox in the .procmail file you have to make the same change in the .muttrc file.

Here's what I have in the .procmailrc file;

PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.

MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # You'd better make sure it exists

DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox #this is the default mailbox in the .muttrc file.

LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from

LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail

# The lock file ensures that only 1 spamassassin invocation happens

# at 1 time, to keep the load down.

#

:0fw: spamassassin.lock

• < 256000

# Mails with a score of 15 or higher are almost certainly spam (with 0.05%

# false positives according to rules/STATISTICS.txt). Let's put them in a

# different mbox. (This one is optional.)

:0:

• ^X-Spam-Level: \\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*
  *

# /dev/null

almost-certainly-spam #this is the mailbox in the .muttrc file

# All mail tagged as spam (eg. with a score higher than the set threshold)

# is moved to "probably-spam".

:0:

• ^X-Spam-Status: Yes

probably-spam #this is the mailbox in the .muttrc file

# Work around procmail bug: any output on stderr will cause the "F" in "From"

# to be dropped. This will re-add it.

:0

• ^^rom[]

{

LOG="*** Dropped F off From_ header! Fixing up. "

:0 fhw

}

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