"Dr. C. Michael McCallum" <mccallum(_at_)dogbert(_dot_)cop(_dot_)uop(_dot_)edu>
writes:
Hello, I am trying to use procmail to filter my email.
It works pretty well, except that whenever I get mail,
it is writing some sort of log to my background display
(I use the root display). I guess it is trying to write to
the console, and even when I pop up an console xterm, it writes
to the screen instead of the console xterm.
It sounds like your procmail was compiled with the "console" define
uncommented in config.h:
/*#define console "/dev/console" /* uncomment if you want procmail to
use the console (or any other
terminal or file) to print any error messages that could not be dumped
in the "logfile"; only recommended for debugging purposes, if you have
trouble creating a "logfile" or suspect that the trouble starts before
procmail can interpret any rcfile or arguments. */
Check your config.h and recompile.
Philip Guenther