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
| /usr/bin/spamassassin
# 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
| sed -e '1s/^/F/'
}
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