Re: balsa and maildir usage with procmail

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 10/04/2005 03:19:57 AM Tue, Jean-François Lalande wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following little problem: I use balsa with a maildir  
> local repository. When getting mail from a pop account, I use  
> the "procmail option" in balsa to feed procmail which will put  
> the new mails in the right maildir folder (for example  
> INBOX/new). What is strange is that the mail does not appears  
> directly: I supposed that balsa cannot see that a new mail  
> arrived. So I re-hit the "get mail" button to force balsa to  
> check locally all the "/new" directories but balsa seems to  
> check only the pop account and not the local folder. The only  
> way is to wait (some time after, sometimes the mails appears)  
> or I have to shutdown balsa and relaunch it and the new mails  
> are detected.
>
> Is there any way to have my mail appearing in balsa when  
> procmail drop them in the "new/" directories ?

Balsa creates a new message file in the "tmp/" directory, and  
then moves it to "new/" or "cur/" according to the "unread" flag,  
and expects other agents to do the same. So it detects changes by  
checking the mod-time of "tmp/".  Can you arrange for procmail to  
do the same, or otherwise "touch" "tmp/"?  Balsa will then detect  
the new mail at the next mailbox check.

Peter