Neal asked,
| I am trying procmail for the first time. I use RedHat7.3 with exim
| with a nonstandard mail setup. I like my mail to go to $HOME/inbox.
|
| The problem is that procmail refuses to deliver, saying it can't
| create the system mailbox, /var/spool/mail/nbecker.
Unless you invoke procmail with the -m option (which normally you don't for
ordinary delivery of incoming messages), one of the first things procmail does
is make sure that, if everything else goes wrong, it can deliver to $ORGMAIL.
At this point it hasn't read your ~/.procmailrc nor even /etc/procmailrc yet,
so it uses the compiled-in value of ORGMAIL.
Your procmail binary must have been compiled with ORGMAIL set to
/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME. Make the edits indicated in src/authenticate.c so
that ORGMAIL will be $HOME/inbox and recompile.
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