Look folks, please forgive me if the word "preference" offended you.
In some forums, if you post a question, you get ten good answers and
a hundred silly ones (I exaggerate). So I just meant that if five
people wanted to help, I had to choose one somehow.
As for using the phone: it's kind of hard to use email to debug an
email handler. :-) Just I few minutes ago I got
mailtool is confused about the state of your
mail file. Please exit mailtool and restart it.
At the time that happened, I had a very minimal .procmailrc,
which contains:
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/home/wwgrol/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/Log_File #recommended
LOGABSTRACT=no
:0:
* ^From.*wwgrol
from_me
:0 c
backup
:0 ic
| cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,32d`
# ____________________________________Trap info for the log
TRAP='formail -XTo: -XSubject: -XCc: -XFrom: -XDate: \
-XReply-To: -XReceived: -XX-Mailing -XTag: -XX-Loop: \
-XApparently- -XX-Envelope- -IResent-Bcc: ; \
echo __________________________________________
'
# Anything not yet matched goes directly to mailtool (or whatever).