Hello masters of procmail,
I have strange symptoms on my system:
When filtering messages from /var/mail/$LOGNAME with the script
from the end of the man page procmail(1) it works OK, but usually
a message or two stay in /var/mail/$LOGNAME. I am not satisfied
with this behaviour, I want all messages sorted in mailboxes
under $HOME/Mail/ directory so that I can set $HOME/Mail/Inbox as
my default mailbox in my mailer and not care about
/var/mail/$LOGNAME.
I tried to accomplish this using the .forward mechanism and put
the line
"|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75
#$LOGNAME"
in $HOME/.forward. I did not use the above mentioned script but
only called fetchmail (it is supposed to work this way, isn't
it?), and ended up with no mail delivered to mailboxes in
$HOME/Mail. All messages were lost.
Then I tried putting in .forward just plain
| /usr/bin/procmail
but it ate up my mail in the same way. What am I doing wrong? I
run fetchmail 5.2.2., procmail 3.14, sendmail 8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1 on
Soalris 7.
Thanks, Jernej
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