Subject: Re: cannot create /IMAPdir//INBOX/: is a directory
Newsgroups: gmane.mail.procmail
Date: 2004-12-11 23:49:38 GMT (3 years, 31 weeks, 2 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes ago)
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:50:08 -0700, Computer King <maillist <at> computerking.ca> wrote: > > No it is not the Default directory i think it is the standard Maildir > directory but i use IMAP style directories not too sure why Firstly, the word MAILDIR as a variable name in procmail predates, and has absolutely nothing to do with, the mail storage format called "Maildir" which was invented quite some years later. Secondly, directories using the Maildir format (tmp,cur,new subdirs) are NOT "IMAP style" and in fact the author of the IMAP specifications strongly recommends AGAINST using that format, and does not support it in the reference IMAP implementation. That doesn't mean it's not possible to have an IMAP server that uses Maildir for storage, although the most popular attempts have so far been broken in one way or another (I don't know specifically about Binc); but don't call it "IMAP style". IMAP is a *protocol*, it's supposed to be largely independent of the format in which the messages are stored. > but read they were better somewhere. Don't believe everything you read. The proponents of that format will go on with religious fervor about how wonderful it is, and I imaginge some of them are about to flame me for suggesting otherwise. As with almost anything, it has advantages and disadvantages. > I also read that i have to add a trialling / to my MAILDIR so that > procmail treats it as a Maildir or IMAPdir style directory. Is this not > true? It it not true. For clarity, let's call a Maildir format directory (one of those directories that has subdirs tmp, cur, and new) a "folder" for the rest of this discussion, to distinguish it from other directories that have other purposes. MAILDIR in procmail is NOT meant to give the name of a "folder". MAILDIR in procmail should give the name of a directory that *contains* (is the parent directory of) the set of folders that store your actual mail. The variable DEFAULT is meant to give the name of a folder. That's the variable that must have a trailing slash so that procmail treats it as a folder in the Maildir sense. > I am really getting sick of playing with / and just need a solid > explanation We'd need to see the procmail recipe that stores the mail into BULKFOLDER to have some idea of why you're getting that error. It might even be the case that procmail is just warning you (unnecessarily) that the directory already exists; the Folder: line in your log output seems to indicate that the message was successfully stored. Or it might be a permission problem of some sort.