Re: [Sheflug] Procmail

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet Richard Ibbotson uttered these words of wisdom:
> Hi
> 
> Well, As I thought I would I've messed up procmail configuration...
> my procmailrc looks like....
> 
> 
> PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:.
> MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/$richard
> DEFAULT=root
> 
> :0                              # Anything from zetnet brought down by
> 				#  Fetchmail
> *^TO.*
> richard                         # will go to /home/richard/Mail/inbox
> 

Er, the whitespace between :0 and * probably isn't needed, but as :
indicates rule start, this is probably moot.

Also, what is $richard? That'll probably translate to /var/spool/mail.
DEFAULT needs to point to a complete mailbox, e.g., /var/spool/mail/root,
or mayhap $MAILDIR/root however, if you want to write to root's mailbox
and mail is coming in to /you/, it's probably going to fail (users don't
have access to root do they?), so if you want to deliver to root by 
default, you need a rule to forward the mail with a rule like placed at
the extreme bottom of .procmailrc (it's parsed on a first-match basis):

	:0
	!root

Assuming you always have your mail coming in to /var/spool/mail, then 
you'll want:

	PATH=<as before>
	MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail

	:0
	* ^TO.*
	richard

But as that's sending all mail to richard, you can abbrivate it to:

	PATH=<as before>
	MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail

	:0
	richard

DEFAULT is (by default) /var/spool/mail/$USER, so you could even just have
an empty .procmailrc for this simple thing :)

The mail folder in the recipe (in this case "richard") is relative to 
the setting of MAILDIR, unless it is an absolute path or other special
directive.

HTH,

Chris...


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