Well I know the PATH=`which procmail` works. It's being used on another
machine that uses procmail and there aren't any problems. Basically it
runs which procmail when it asks for where procmail is located. (I was
doing a lot of shell scripting at the time, that's why I used that.)
[timh(_at_)yoda timh]$ echo "`which procmail`"
/usr/local/bin/procmail
So when it looks for procmail it will get that. I know that's not the
problem, like I said I have it running like that at 6 different
locations and it works fine. As well as it was set like that when I set
up that .procmailrc, when it was working.
And another reason why I know it's not filtering is that it's not
writing to the log. It was working up to "Fri Jun 29 16:35:36 2001,"
since that's the last entry that procmail made to the log file. Since
then, there have bee absolutely NO entries to the log. And my
procmailrc hasn't even been touched since Jul 10th.
-rw-r--r-- 1 timh timh 2125 Jul 10 07:11 ../.procmailrc
I think that's when I copied in another .procmailrc from another machine
to test.
I don't think there's anyting in there that's wrong, or something that's
complaining. If there would, it would tell me in the log by saying
there was an error, but it's not touching the log at all.
I didn't realize how much I loved procmail until it stopped working.
I even tried using a .forward, and to no avail. On FreeBSD you
absolutely need it to use procmail, in Mandrake, they've bypassed it by
some sort of config in Postfix I believe. So no .forward is needed, and
it's not used. I tried to take my .forward from my FreeBSD machine:
[timh(_at_)yoda timh]$ cat .forward
"|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail || exit 75"
I of course changed the PATH to be correct, and nothing changed. Thanx
for the help!
tdh
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| On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 11:42:48PM -0400, Tim Holmes wrote:
| > I was a very happy user of Procmail for some time, then suddenly it
| > decided that didn't want to work any more!
| >
| > Here are the headers to my .procmailrc and the permissions.
| >
| > PATH=`which procmail` # Procmail Path
|
| Well, for starters I can tell you this is wrong. Certainly you want the
| directory containing procmail in your path (although if it isn't, and it isn't
| launched directly by your MTA or with an explicit path in your .forward, the
| .procmailrc will never be read anyway) but there are other binaries on the
| system, existing in other directories, that you will want on your path as
| well. Such as Sendmail (or other MTA), formail and lockfile (should be same as
| the path to procmail however), possibly various shell utilities. The path
| inside your procmailrc should be pretty much the same as your shell
| environment.
|
| > MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # You'd better make sure it exists
| > DEFAULT=$MAIL # Default mailbox
| > LOGFILE=$HOME/mail/procmail.log
|
| This could be shortned to $MAILDIR/procmail.log
|
| > LOCKFILE=$HOME/mail/.lockmail
|
| Likewise this to $MAILDIR/.lockmail
|
| > The machine is a Mandrake 8.0 machine. It appears that Postfix is
| > configured to automatically send mail through procmail. I have procmail
| > running and working fine on a RedHat 7.1 machine and a FreeBSD machine.
| > (I had to create a .forward for FreeBSD, but it works fine.) Can
| > anybody advise or provide any idea of where to look? Thank you!
|
| Have you turned on verbose logging? Procmail IS processing your mail, else
| there'd be nothing in the logfile. Did you add a recipe toward the top of your
| procmailrc that might be catching everything (bad regexp maybe)?
|
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