Well, this page http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ helped me answer my own question. Put / on the end of a mailbox to make it mailder, put /. (*snicker*) on the end to make it MH. Mutt works perfectly with it too. Good-bye ^@! The URL I mentioned above is a _very extensive_ and _very long_ "quick start", for all of you just discovering procmail. Gabe On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 09:22:10PM -0500, Gabe Turner wrote: > Well, with all this talk of mutt and procmail and such, I just thought of > something that I'd like to do. > > At work, we have a mail server running Irix and for some reason, I have > problems with procmail delivering mail to mbox-format files. Every so > often (much too often), procmail will concatenate two or three or a dozen > emails together with just NULLs (^@) between them. So, when viewing these > folders in mutt, one message may actually contain many messages, so I have > to edit the message and delete the NULLs before the other messages show up > in my mailbox. > > As you can imagine, this is _extremely_ bothersome. Now, someone mentioned > that mutt can read maildir format folders (which I wasn't aware of). It's > my opinion that it's procmail locking (or not locking) the mbox folders > that adds the NULLs in there, for whatever reason. If I could get procmail > to put incoming messages into maildir format, since every messages is a > seperate file, I shouldn't have the problem of multiple messages being > concatenated together. > > We're using sendmail as our MTA. Is it possible (via something in > .procmailrc, or even an external program) to have procmail put every > message I send to it in maildir format? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------