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Re: procmail problem

1998-02-13 00:48:26
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Sacha Loiseau wrote:
The problem is simple: procmail does not deliver mail to $DEFAULT. My
mail stays in /var/mail/$LOGNAME . All the other recipes work fine and
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MAILDIR =       $HOME/mail      # You'd better make sure it exists
LOGFILE =       $MAILDIR/from
DEFAULT=        $MAILDIR/mailspool

It seems you've set DEFAULT to something that doesn't exist. DEFAULT is
set by procmail at startup to point to your mailbox. Unless there is a
good reason to designate some other location as the DEFAULT folder, then
don't set this here. Make sure the other vars have the right paths too.

David Hunt

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