I've been poring over the procmail docs, really I have, but I can't even
get what's probably the world's simplest recipe to work, even though I
was using an example from the procmailex man page as a template (the
example that says: "Add the headers of all messages that didn't come
from the postmaster to your private header collection...")!
What I'm trying to do is: for each arriving e-mail that's not from a
mailing list, copy the header to the file .mail_in, then activate a
shell script called "grepper", which greps selected header lines to a
master file, then deletes .mail_in.
So I've been trying:
:0 hwc:
* !^FROM_DAEMON
| cat >>$HOME/Mail/.mail_in; $HOME/bin/grepper
But it doesn't work, though I've tried numerous different phrasings of
the action line. I can't even get it to just write the header to the
file .mail_in. The procmail log shows:
procmail: Executing " cat >>/usr/u/a/areray/Mail/.mymail"
...but it doesn't actually happen. Could someone please tell me what
the heck I'm doing wrong? I'll name my first-born child after whoever
does!! ;-)
RR
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