Hi,
This is driving me nuts. I am a newbie, and overall
not too bright, so no doubt one or the other of these
facts is to blame, BUT ... after two days ..
I like to use `biff' in my console (so I see all incoming
messages). After installing procmail, ordinary messages are
echoed as usual, but when an incoming message has something
in it that finds a match in my .procmailrc, I am
notified wrongly.
I get notification, seemingly, of the first mail message
in my /var/mail mailbox!
EXAMPLE (where I have rm'd my /var/mail mailbox first,
and used a trivial .procmailrc, to test) ..
`.procmailrc' looks like
---
VERBOSE=on
LOGFILE=/tmp/PROC
:0:
* ^Subject:.*test
IN.testing
---------
My `/tmp/PROC' log file reports what I expect after
first an ordinary message, then a matching one
---
procmail: No match on "^Subject:.*test"
procmail: Locking "/var/mail/jme.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/mail/jme"
procmail: Opening "/var/mail/jme"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Unlocking "/var/mail/jme.lock"
From root Wed Jul 9 23:31:17 1997
Subject: ORDINARY MAIL
Folder: /var/mail/jme 297
procmail: Notified comsat: "jme(_at_)0:/var/mail/jme"
---
procmail: Match on "^Subject:.*test"
procmail: Locking "IN.testing.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=IN.testing"
procmail: Opening "IN.testing"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Unlocking "IN.testing.lock"
From root Wed Jul 9 23:31:47 1997
Subject: MAIL WITH test IN IT
Folder: IN.testing 304
procmail: Notified comsat: "jme(_at_)0:/home/jme/IN.testing"
---------
[ BTW, the last lines of each of these do correspond to the man page:
$LOGNAME(_at_)offset_of_message_in_mailbox:absolute_path_to_mailbox
]
BUT. Messages are delivered to my /var/mail/jme mailbox,
and the IN.testing folder, respectively, but the console gets two
*duplicate* messages that I enclose after the signature. THe first
is correct, it is the first incoming message. The second is not,
it should be the `MAIL WITH test IN IT' message!
ANy ideas?
-jme
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New mail for jme(_at_)c-art-w has arrived:
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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 23:31:17 -0700
From: root (Super-User)
To: jme
Subject: ORDINARY MAIL
xyz
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New mail for jme(_at_)c-art-w has arrived:
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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 23:31:17 -0700
From: root (Super-User)
To: jme
Subject: ORDINARY MAIL
xyz
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