At 10:15 2001-03-08 -0500, Tony Shum wrote:
I can't seem to get the procmail to work, can someone tell me what I did
wrong?
Didn't read any of the manpages or the FAQs?
my .procmailrc contains
---
:0c:
backup
Typically, the .procmailrc will contain a few other things as well (usually
preceeding any rules such as this), setting up operational parameters for
procmail. Here's useful stuff to consider putting in there:
# dir for mailboxes (this one here is for Elm). Make sure this EXISTS.
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
# set log file
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/log
# log message abstracts
LOGABSTRACT=all
# set log verbosity
# (ON when trying to isolate problems, OFF most of the rest of the time)
VERBOSE=ON
Then, look in your Mail dir and view the log file for info about what
procmail is doing.
my .forward contains
---
"|/usr/local/bin/procmail"
---
This is the part that screams "I didn't read the manpages", because the
procmail manpages don't say to invoke it via .forward this way.
Nominally, that .forward should contain:
"|exec /usr/bin/procmail"
^^^^^
The ath should be appropriate to the actual installation of procmail.
More typically, the recommended form is:
"|exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- ||exit 75 #abc"
The permissions on the .forward are important as well - it should note be
group/world writeable.
This is all assuming that procmail isn't already configured as LDA, in
which case the .forward is unnecessary. The easy way to check this is to
properly set up your .procmailrc and omit the .forward, then semd a message
to yourself. If it gets processed (check the logfile), then procmail is
your LDA and you're good to go. If it doesn't, then you should set up a
.forward as shown above.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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