Procmail issues

Question

Hi guys, I'm having some trouble configuring procmail. If anybody can help me out i'd be infinitely grateful. All I want is for email from the [arch] mailing list to go to a separate 'arch' mailbox (not necessarily a separate directory but I don't really care) and for email from the [dwm] mailing list to go to a separate 'dwm' mailbox. All other mail I want to be shown/seen/sent-to the 'inbox' mailbox. Thats it. For some reason I am unable to do this even though i've scoured the man pages and online documentation. I've even looked at other mutt/procmail threads on this board. :\
The following are my configs for .muttrc and .procmailrc. If there's any other information you need I'd be happy to share.
[f|~]% cat .muttrc
set record="~/mail/sent"
#mailboxes /var/spool/mail/f # my mailboxes filtered by procmail
#mailboxes /home/f/mail/arch
#mailboxes /home/f/mail/pacman-dev
#mailboxes /home/f/mail/tur-users
#mailboxes /home/f/mail/bugtraq
set folder="~/mail"
mailboxes =~/mail/inbox
mailboxes =~/mail/arch
mailboxes =~/mail/dwm
save-hook .* =inbox
subscribe arch dwm
#run fetchmail by hitting key of G
macro index G "!fetchmail -a -m 'procmail -d %T'\r"
macro pager G "!fetchmail -a -m 'procmail -d %T'\r"
# when postponing messages, ask where to save them
set postpone=ask-yes
# default file to save postponed messages
set postponed="~/mail/postponed"
# ask if I want to recall postponed messages when I start a new message
set recall=ask-yes
# My email address
set pop_user="********@*******.com"
# # My email account password
set pop_pass="******"
set pop_host="pops://******:******@pop.******.com:995"
set pop_last
unset pop_delete
#mail send options
set sendmail="/usr/bin/esmtp -v -X /tmp/esmtp.log"
# # Too many email headers make reading a message difficult
ignore *
unignore From: To: Cc: Subject: Date: #Only these are shown in the header
# #To ensure that mutt does not put
# #'[email protected] in From
set from="[email protected]"
set use_from=yes
set envelope_from=yes
# #The text editor I want to use to write emails
# #The default is nano
set editor="vi"
# for threaded view
set sort=threads
#check for new mail on startup
exec fetch-mail
# set up the sidebar, default not visible
set sidebar_width=12
set sidebar_visible=yes
# which mailboxes to list in the sidebar
#mailboxes =inbox =arch =bugtraq
# color of folders with new mail
color sidebar_new yellow default
# ctrl-n, ctrl-p to select next, prev folder
# # ctrl-o to open selected folder
bind index \CP sidebar-prev
bind index \CN sidebar-next
bind index \CO sidebar-open
bind pager \CP sidebar-prev
bind pager \CN sidebar-next
bind pager \CO sidebar-open
bind generic <left> previous-entry
bind generic <right> next-entry
[f|~]% cat .procmailrc
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmaillog
LOGABSTRACT=no
#VERBOSE=on used only for debugging
VERBOSE=off
FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
NL="
##recipe lines begin with :0
##dont put comments on recipe lines
##disable a recipe with the false condition !
##condition lines begin with * and regex is your friend
##conditions are anded and everything after * is fed straight into egrep
##one action line follows the conditions, in this case it is a mailbox name
#catch duplicates using formail
:0 Whc: .msgid.lock
| $FORMAIL -D 16384 .msgid.cache
:0 a
$MAILDIR/duplicates
#no more html messages
:0
* ^Content-Type:.*html
$MAILDIR/junk
#now put my mail lists into mailboxes
:0
* ^From:.*arch@archlinux\.org
$MAILDIR/arch/
:0
* ^From:.*dwm@suckless\.org
$MAILDIR/dwm/
:0
$MAILDIR/inbox/
# Last rule: mail that gets #
# this far goes in default box #
:0
default

Answer 1

onearm wrote:
F wrote:Do I need an 'mbox' file in each directory of ~/mail/{arch|dwm} ?
Nope. If you are using the mbox format for the mail all it's needed is a file with the name of the mailbox (in your case one called "arch",  another "dwm" and yet another called "inbox"). If you want to use the maildir format then the name of the mailboxes should become the directory name containing the three subdirectory cur-new-tmp.
[f|~]% cat .procmailrc
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmaillog
LOGABSTRACT=no
#VERBOSE=on used only for debugging
VERBOSE=off
FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
NL="
##recipe lines begin with :0
##dont put comments on recipe lines
##disable a recipe with the false condition !
##condition lines begin with * and regex is your friend
##conditions are anded and everything after * is fed straight into egrep
##one action line follows the conditions, in this case it is a mailbox name
#catch duplicates using formail
:0 Whc: .msgid.lock
| $FORMAIL -D 16384 .msgid.cache
:0 a
$MAILDIR/duplicates
#no more html messages
:0
* ^Content-Type:.*html
$MAILDIR/junk
#now put my mail lists into mailboxes
:0
* ^TO_.*arch@archlinux\.org
$MAILDIR/arch/
:0
* ^TO_.*dwm@suckless\.org
$MAILDIR/dwm/
:0
$MAILDIR/inbox/
If I'm not wrong (my procmail rules knowledge is a bit rusty as you can imagine ) when using the macro ^TO_ you shoulnd't use anything else than the simply mail address. No ".*" no < nor >, only the address.
What I don't understand is why the mail don't get into the inbox at least, they should if not matched with any previous rules.
I took your advice and my mail is still not being filtered. I have no idea what i'm doing wrong. Here is the .procmairc I used:
AILDIR=$HOME/mail
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmaillog
LOGABSTRACT=no
#VERBOSE=on used only for debugging
VERBOSE=off
FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
NL="
##recipe lines begin with :0
##dont put comments on recipe lines
##disable a recipe with the false condition !
##condition lines begin with * and regex is your friend
##conditions are anded and everything after * is fed straight into egrep
##one action line follows the conditions, in this case it is a mailbox name
#catch duplicates using formail
:0 Whc: .msgid.lock
| $FORMAIL -D 16384 .msgid.cache
:0 a
$MAILDIR/duplicates
#no more html messages
:0
* ^Content-Type:.*html
$MAILDIR/junk
#now put my mail lists into mailboxes
:0
* ^TO_arch@archlinux\.org
$MAILDIR/arch/
:0
* ^TO_dwm@suckless\.org
$MAILDIR/dwm/
:0
$MAILDIR/inbox/