Okay, I'm having some problems getting procmail to work on my computer.
Here's the lo-down:
I'm running Red Hat 6.0 (which is set up to use procmail as the default
MDA). I've set up the .procmailrc file in my home directory and it
looks like this:
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VERBOSE=yes
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
LOGABSTRACT=all
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/binary
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
# Recipes
:0
* ^Subject: .*test.*
IN-testing
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Okay, I've also made the directory ~/Procmail to coincide with my
.procmailrc file's $PMDIR variable and configured .fetchmailrc so I can
use fetchmail to retrieve the mail from my ISP's mail server. I use
PINE for my mail client, and so my mail would be transferred to ~/mail.
Given all of this information, can ANYONE tell me why when i type
'fetchmail' and it gets all my mail from the server, the one test
message I have to test my recipe above to make sure procmail is working
doesn't filter at all. The message simply has the words 'procmail test'
for the subject line, so it should trigger the recipe i have above. In
addition, even though i've specified a log file and made VERBOSE=yes and
LOGABSTRACT=all, it seems as though procmail never even makes a log file
so I can't even troubleshoot the problem.
If anyone has any ideas as to what I can do, it would be greatly
appreciated.
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rdk
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