Yesterday my ISP rebuilt the shell server that I use, and for some
reason they zapped procmail, which had been living at
/usr/bin/procmail. My .forward file looked like
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #haferman"
and it appears that all of my e-mail went into a big black
hole when /usr/bin/procmail was removed.
I have "fixed" the problem by installing my own local copy of
procmail, but I'm wondering if there is some other way I could
have either saved my e-mail or at least have had it bounce back
to the sender.
I guess I could have built a wrapper around procmail, for example
changing my .forward to
"|IFS=' ' && exec /home/mybin/procmail-wrapper -f- || exit 75 #haferman"
where procmail-wrapper would check for the existence of procmail, etc
etc.
Any comments?