[Sheflug] Re: Procmail

[Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris

This one vanished for me after sending it to the list.  Apologies if 
everyone received it twice.

> How is procmail being triggered? From .forward? Just checking this
> is okay :)

Umm.. strangely enough this is one of the configuration concepts that
confused me :)  So, could be that I'm sat here thinking that Procmail
is running when it isn't.

> What's in the logfile ?

Nowt :)

> How are you running
> fetchmail/procmail? As $USER? As root? If you aren't running as
> root, then your DEFAULT may still cause problems (potentially).

Testing fetchmail at 'fetchmail -v' as root.

> I don;t know if posting extracts from my .procmailrc would help as
> its geared towards delivering safely to MH folders, but if you
> think it might just say and I'll post extracts.

Hmm.. probably not

> You may also want to look at the man page for procmailex - one of
> the first few rules it has is how to copy all incoming mail to a
> safe place whilst you're playing with the rest of your rules.

Had a look.  Surprised that they don't put all of this in man
procmailrc


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Thanks



Richard


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