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Procmail not responding at all

1996-06-24 11:37:40
Hello to all you procmailers

I've been having some problems which probably have such a simple solution that
I will never find it on my own.
I've been trying to set it up for some time now but all I've managed to 
acomplish is to let mail get lost. I downloaded it today myself and set it
up in my home dierctory but everything works the same as when I used the one
already installed globally.
I'm using another username as a guinnypig so I won't lose all my mail while
I'm working on this and his .procmailrc file looks like this:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail

DEFAULT=/usr/spool/mail/baldur

VERBOSE=on
:0c:
* ^From.*gislil
! gislil(_at_)hafro(_dot_)is

and his .forward file is:

"|/home/fiski/gislil/bin.sun4/procmail -f- #baldur"

All mail is being delivered on a sunOS machine and we are using something
called smrsh.
I've checked all permissions I can think of. Baldur's .procmailrc and .forward
files are both world readable and my ~gislil/bin.sun4/procmail is world
executable.
I've tried supplying the path to baldur's .procmailrc file as an argument to
procmail in the .forward but without better luck.
What happens is absolutely nothing. /var/log/syslog says stat=Sent but 
procmail (assuming that it gets invoked) just eats up the mail. I don't get
any error messages from procmail either, neither via e-mail nor in the LOGFILE
which I used to have defined. The only life signs of procmail I've seen until
now I got when I typed procmail -v on the command line.

If I could at least get some small error message from procmail, saying that
I'm a complete idiot, I'd be really happy.

If anyone can imagine what I'm forgetting I'd appreciate him dropping me a 
line.

Thanks

-- 
Gisli Leifsson           |     o   | Work phone:  +354 569 7902
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Directorate of Fisheries |   o     | Home phone:  +354 561 2514
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150 Reykjavik, Iceland   |  o      | Home page:    http://www.hafro.is/~gislil

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