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procmail (v3.22) vs. EX_TEMPFAIL from dmail

2003-03-13 19:45:49
Hello List,
   Is there an issue with Procmail V3.22 and receiving an EX_TEMPFAIL from
an invoked program (dmail from the imap-2002b set), that resulted from an invalid
setup?

I believe I lost mail today because of it.

I invoke dmail with lines like:

|/usr/local/bin/dmail 2>/dev/null +${PG_LISTS}/committers

What had happened is I changed my IMAP configuration to move it's home directory from ~/Mail/ to ~/, and invalidly changed the variables at the top of the file to miss a / that
was needed.

I also had symlinked ~/INBOX to ~/Mail/INBOX.

Dmail tried the invalid path, couldn't find it, then tried ~/INBOX, and didn't like
the symlink.

At that point, I believe, as does Mark Crispin, that dmail returned EX_TEMPFAIL to
procmail.

Shouldn't procmail have written the mail to /var/spool/$USER?

Thanks for any insight.



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Larry Rosenman                     http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
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