I can't seem to get any response from the mail system when I try to
invoke procmail from a .forward file, as shown in the man page example.
The result, or rather lack thereof, is that my incoming mail simply
seems to disappear, leaving no error messages, complaints form sendmail,
etc. Needless to say, I don't leave the .forward file in place for long.
I test by sending mail to myself, waiting ten minutes or so, then
giving up and resending the test message with the .forward file removed.
The second test message always shows up within one minute.
I AM successfully invoking procmail manually, using the example
script shown in the procmail man page Notes section, and setting the
environment variables in my .procmailrc file as shown, so I'm
reasonably confident that the recipes aren't simply eating the mail.
I'm at a bit of a loss where to dig further for the solution. Could
someone suggest direction of study and test strategies beyond the
procmail, sendmail, and forward docs? For what it's worth, I run
/bin/bash as my shell when I'm logged in.
Thanks,
jimo(_at_)eskimo(_dot_)com
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here's a representative .forward file I've tried
"|/usr/local/bin/procmail -f- #jimo"
And here's the top of my .procmailrc file:
PATH=/u/j/jimo/.bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox #completely optional
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommended
:0:
* ^Sender:.*owner-omega-list
Omega-l
:0:
* ^Sender:.*owner-linux-list
Linux-l
...
:0:
* ^FROM_MAILER
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