Dave Hartburn wrote:
> Can anyone offer some advice on a maildir and filter problem?
>
> The major issue is that this problem concerns my private e-mail on a
> hosted server, rather than anything I administer for work. So, I am
> limited to what I can do.
>
> The hosters have recently changed to the courier maildir format, from the
> standard unix mbox. I used to use a few suffixes in my e-mail, such as
> -junkmail or -work, to seperate mostly unwanted mail from everything else.
>
> Since the helpful change over, the filters still deliver into the mbox
> files, but these are unreadable by the imap server, as this looks for the
> new style mailboxes.
IF you have shell access (and the rest of what should be obvious
needs) you might see if you can login, fire up 'lynx' and point
it to the top of your mail storage area.
It can show you the structure, the files, and can then bore-down
and directly read any .<confuration> files, as well as full
headers and body plain-text of either Maildir or Mbox storage.
Once you have a good picture of what is where, the appropriate
selection of remote client, UID:PWD and 'subscribing' may let
you read/recover whatever is lacking, and/or alter your filters
to fit better with the new environment.
In any case, best to work with, not against, the box admins.
Else move off that box.
HTH,
Bill
>
> As a test, I have set up the following in my .forward file:
> if
> $header_to: contains "dave-bob"
> then
> save /home/dave/mail/xxxxxxxx/dave/.bob/
> save "/home/dave/mail/xxxxxxxx/dave/dump"
> endif
>
> This should deliver two copies of mails to dave-bob, one into the maildir
> format folder, .bob, and the other into the mbox file 'dump'. Bob fails,
> but 'dump' works and I can not get access to the logs, which would
> probably help a lot.
>
> Testing with -bf gives:
> /usr/sbin/exim -bf ~/mail_filters <dump
> Sender taken from "From " line
> Return-path taken from "Return-path:" header line
> Return-path = dave@???
> Sender = dave@???
> Recipient = davidh@???
> Testing Exim filter file "/home/davidh/mail_filters"
>
> Save message to: /home/davidh/mail/samndave.org.uk/dave/.bob/
> Save message to: /home/davidh/mail/samndave.org.uk/dave/dump
> Filtering set up at least one significant delivery or other action.
> No other deliveries will occur.
>
> The useful bits from the config file are:
>
> local_delivery:
> driver = appendfile
> delivery_date_add
> envelope_to_add
> directory =
> "${extract{5}{:}{${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/passwd}{$value}}}}/mail"
> maildir_format
> group = mail
> mode = 0660
> return_path_add
> user = $local_part
>
> userforward:
> #!!# filter renamed allow_filter
> driver = redirect
> allow_filter
> check_ancestor
> check_local_user
> domains = ! lsearch;/etc/userdomains
> no_expn
> file = $home/.forward
> file_transport = address_file
> pipe_transport = address_pipe
> reply_transport = address_reply
> no_verify
>
> Is there anything anyone can suggest, keeping in mind I can not change the
> config files? Conversations with the hosting sites support team suggest
> they may not be happy if they realised I had been poking around so much!
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave Hartburn
>
>
