Hi folks, I have just installed and configured procmail-3.11pre4. My
question deals with the behaviour of the BSD Mail utility. I used to
be able to read my mail from the $HOME/mbox file but since installing
procmail, the Mail utility seems to ignore the contents of the mbox.
If I run "Mail" it tells me that I have no mail. If I start it up with
Mail -f mbox, then I can see the messages. Am I doing something wrong?
Is there some recipe I need to add to my .procmailrc file?
It isn't procmail which is responsible for *reading* the
mail. Procmail only delivers the mail; it's up to you
to read it.
The procmail package comes with three Bourne shell scripts
called {1,2,3}rmail, in the examples directory. You should
use a script based on one of those to read the mail.
(Incidentally, Stephen, there's a typo in those scripts. It
should be "your" favourite mailer. :-)
Luck++;
Phil
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