At 15:37 2001-03-17 -0500, Landy Roman wrote:
when procmail fails to write to a fail b/c of my mistake where does it put
the mail
see error in log
Gentle reminder: Please DO NOT use attachments on mailing lists. Instead,
include your text as part of the message body. There are multitudes of
reasons for this -- MIME support (or lack thereof) in receipient mail
clients; some clients auto-extract attachments to files (which means
they're not inherently visible while you're viewing your email);
list-to-web archiving will generally discard the attachment, which results
in your message being worthless in an archive; lists with digest options
(tho AFAIK, procmail list doesn't have digesting) get screwed up with MIME,
etc.
Please keep this in mind.
Now, as to your log - according to this log, these messages WERE stored -
to the folder /home/landie/Procmail/spammers - my guess is that this is the
folder where you chuck stuff that wasn't explicitly filtered by any filters
earlier in your procmailrc. Why don't you look there for them?
I've always understood procmail to act as follows (someone slap me if I'm
wrong about this):
If a delivery action fails (exception: when delivering via piping to a
program and it returns an error status, though there are flags for this),
the message should remain in procmail to be filtered (unless, I believe,
you use the 'i' flag to ignore delivery failures), and if not handled by
following recipes, should be sent to $DEFAULT, which unless you screw with
it, is your system mailbox.
Note that if you bump up your logging to verbose (VERBOSE=ON), you'd get
more information in your logfile to help you diagnose your situation.
---
Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Procmail disclaimer: <http://www.professional.org/procmail/disclaimer.html>
Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list.
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