Firstly, sorry for putting this on the list but am going round in circles and not getting anywhere. I have a couple of email addresses and what I am trying to do is use fetchmail to pick up all the mail from the various addresses and use procmail to sort in to various maildir's. I did get mail collected from the isp with fetchmail but was finding that the mailbox seemed to be getting corrupted on a regular basis and mutt reported /var/mail/keith is not a mailbox. If I deleted the file /var/mail/keith and created a new empty one, mutt would open and report no mail, as expected but as soon as any mail was downloaded, mutt would not open that mailbox. I could still read the file outside of mutt but that was not ideal. I thought maybe some of the headers from some list may have been a problem so thought to use maildir instead. Now, if I have the line mda "procmail -f-" in the .fetchmailrc fetchmail gives an error. >From googling, some results suggest I need a .forward file in my home directory but this was not conclusive. Any thoughts on the corrupted mailbox and the way to go would be good. Do I need to change the .procmailrc to use maildir? Is using maildir likely to reduce the corruption? Thanks Keith
