[Sheflug] Re: Procmail

[Barrie Bremner <baz-sheflug [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

    Richard> Baz
    >> I gave up on procmail quite a while back.  Perl + Mail::Audit +
    >> Mail::SpamAssassin does it for me.  Decent syntax, that lovely
    >> regex engine and good docs :-)


    Richard> Yep.. that's true :) But, I still need procmail so that
    Richard> my incoming mail is taken from /var/spool/mail or
    Richard> wherever and dropped into /home/richard/Mail/inbox so
    Richard> that I can read it.

No, you don't.

Procmail is one way to do it, but there are other ways.

The suggestion by Chris to modify where your MUA fetches mail, or
alter where your MTA delivers mail to seems more logical than messing
about with procmail just to get mail in the right place.

It seems your mail setup is somewhat borked.

What MTA are you using?
Have you modified the MTA config at all?

Can you send mail locally to yourself (removing fetchmail from the
equation)?

Does mail get delivered _somewhere_, even if it's not quite where you
want it, or is it vanishing?

Cheers.

Baz.

-- 
Barrie J. Bremner
baz-sheflug [at] barriebremner.com      http://barriebremner.com/


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