At 03:17 PM 6/9/98 -0400, Paul O Bartlett wrote:
The situation concerning invocation of procmail is unclear to me.
When I login to my shell acount, I am on a machine called accessN,
N=1...5. However, incoming mail is handled by pony-N.... procmail is
in /usr/local/bin to me, and a procmail -v shows version 3.10. I sent
a request to the software group asking for an upgrade to v3.11pre7.
The response back was that the mail servers are running v3.11pre7 and
that what is running on the accessN machines is irrelevant.
I can tell you that for a while a year or two back, my ISP
had a different mail server than shell machines, but *internal*
mail bypassed it--and different mail wound up not only going through
different machines, but different *architectures* (as I discovered
when using a binary I compiled myself to allow game play of a
game I was running via email).
However, when I accordingly changed my ^TO macros to ^TO_, stuff
went awry. A verbose log revealed that the ^TO macro was what was
being expanded, with the underscore taken as a character to be matched.
That really threw things off. So at this point I don't know whom to
believe or where procmail is running when it processes incoming mail
for me.
To answer that question, try something like:
LOG=`hostname; uname -a; procmail -v`
for a while and see what emerges. Perhaps they have 3.11pre7 installed
only on some machines.
Hope that helps,
Stan