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Re: procmail is doing strange things

1999-05-08 09:31:28
psalzman(_at_)landau(_dot_)ucdavis(_dot_)edu writes:
i have fetchmail fetch mail from my school's pop 3 server.  when it does,
the mail get's put into /var/spool/mail/mail instead of
/var/spool/mail/root.

even more confusing, it doesn't write an entry in procmail's mail log,
which makes it look like procmail isn't really running.
...
INCLUDERC=${HOME}/.procmail/rc.maillists
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/MAILLOG
...

Well, all this means is that the delivery is taking place before you
set LOGFILE.  Try putting the assignment to LOGFILE before the
INCLUDERC.


Philip Guenther

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