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Re: Not sure why....

2003-12-11 20:42:27
On 11 Dec 2003, at 13:15, Alan Clifford wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Charles Gregory wrote:

CG>
CG> Keep in mind that the system default mailboxes are '/var/spool/mail/user'. CG> I am setting 'DEFAULT=~/inbox' as the first line in procmailrc. This CG> WORKS for sucessful deliveries. But, it appears that somehow procmail is CG> acting on a 'fallback' scheme that says "If the procmailrc specified
CG> default mailbox is undeliverable, try the system default".
CG>

I thought procmail didn't expand ~

It doesn't:

$ man procmailrc | grep "~"
       SHELLMETAS            &|<>~;?*[
       Procmail does not support the expansion of `~'.

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