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Re: Why is my mail ending up in the wrong place? Procmailrc problem

2006-07-03 10:34:59
On Jun 27, Don Gould (nospam-don(_at_)bowenvale(_dot_)co(_dot_)nz(_dot_)ns) 
typed:

Don:  See:
Don:  
http://www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=8
Don:
Don:  If you look at the log file (follows the rc file) you'll see that the
Don:  mail ends up in my webmin folder most of the time.
Don:
Don:  What have I done wrong?
Don:
Don:  Cheers Don



.co.nz:  The procmailrc file...
.co.nz:
.co.nz:   LOGFILE=/home/don/procmail.log
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  VERBOSE=on
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^(To|Cc):.*
.co.nz:  CLUG\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^Subject:.*test
.co.nz:  TEST\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^Subject:.****SPAM***
.co.nz:  Trash\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^Subject:.*[webmin-l]
.co.nz:  Webmin\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^Subject:.*[Soekris]
.co.nz:  Soekris\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^Subject:.*[IP]
.co.nz:  IP\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^(To|Cc):.*
.co.nz:  IPCop\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^(To|Cc):.*
.co.nz:  PPTP\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^(To|Cc):.*
.co.nz:  PPTP\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^(To|Cc):.*nznog*
.co.nz:  NZ_Nog\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^(To|Cc):.*
.co.nz:  Mambo\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^(To|Cc):.*
.co.nz:  ADSL\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  :0
.co.nz:  * ^(To|Cc):.*
.co.nz:  CLUG\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  0:
.co.nz:  * ^(To|Cc):.*nanog*
.co.nz:  NA_Nog\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  0:
.co.nz:  * ^(To|Cc):.*gnuz*
.co.nz:  CLUG\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  0:
.co.nz:  * ^(To|Cc):.*
.co.nz:  LARTC\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  # 0:
.co.nz:  # * ^(To|Cc):(_dot_)*ip(_at_)*
.co.nz:  # IP\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  # 0:
.co.nz:  # * ^(To|Cc):.*webadmin*
.co.nz:  # Webmin\
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  # 0:
.co.nz:  # * ^(To|Cc):.*soekris*
.co.nz:  # Soekris
.co.nz:
.co.nz:
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  The log file...
.co.nz:
.co.nz:  procmail: [19461] Sun Jun 25 01:30:37 2006
.co.nz:  procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/don/mail"
.co.nz:  procmail: No match on "^(To|Cc):.* "
.co.nz:  procmail: No match on "^Subject:.*test"
.co.nz:  procmail: Match on "^Subject:.****SPAM***"
.co.nz:  procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=Trash"
.co.nz:  procmail: Opening "Trash"
.co.nz:  procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
.co.nz:  procmail: Notified comsat: "don(_at_)1183615:/home/don/mail/Trash"
.co.nz:  From info(_at_)sydney(_dot_)net   Sun Jun 25 01:30:37 2006
.co.nz:   Subject: [SPAM-Bowenvale] ***SPAM*** ***SPAM*** you have new mail 
from Ksenia,
.co.nz:    Folder: Trash                                  15753
.co.nz:  procmail: [26413] Sun Jun 25 02:17:05 2006
.co.nz:  procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/don/mail"
.co.nz:  procmail: No match on "^(To|Cc):.* "
.co.nz:  procmail: No match on "^Subject:.*test"
.co.nz:  procmail: Match on "^Subject:.****SPAM***"
.co.nz:  procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=Trash"
.co.nz:  procmail: Opening "Trash"
.co.nz:  procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
.co.nz:  procmail: Notified comsat: "don(_at_)1199368:/home/don/mail/Trash"
.co.nz:  From administrator(_at_)0800-horoscope(_dot_)com   Sun Jun 25 02:17:05 
2006
.co.nz:   Subject: ***SPAM*** :), nook shaft
.co.nz:    Folder: Trash                                   2965
.co.nz:  procmail: [3003] Sun Jun 25 03:28:29 2006
.co.nz:  procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/don/mail"
.co.nz:  procmail: No match on "^(To|Cc):.* "
.co.nz:  procmail: No match on "^Subject:.*test"
.co.nz:  procmail: No match on "^Subject:.****SPAM***"
.co.nz:  procmail: Match on "^Subject:.*[webmin-l]"
.co.nz:  procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=Webmin"
.co.nz:  procmail: Opening "Webmin"
.co.nz:  procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
.co.nz:  procmail: Notified comsat: "don(_at_)3854684:/home/don/mail/Webmin"
.co.nz:  From soekris-tech-bounces(_at_)lists(_dot_)soekris(_dot_)com   Sun Jun 
25 03:28:29 2006
.co.nz:   Subject: Re: [Soekris] network speed of 4521
.co.nz:    Folder: Webmin                              11315
.co.nz:  procmail: [6974] Sun Jun 25 03:41:06 2006
.co.nz:  procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/home/don/mail"
.co.nz:  procmail: No match on "^(To|Cc):.* "
.co.nz:  procmail: No match on "^Subject:.*test"
.co.nz:  procmail: No match on "^Subject:.****SPAM***"
.co.nz:  procmail: Match on "^Subject:.*[webmin-l]"
.co.nz:  procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=Webmin"
.co.nz:  procmail: Opening "Webmin"
.co.nz:  procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
.co.nz:  procmail: Notified comsat: "don(_at_)3865999:/home/don/mail/Webmin"
.co.nz:  From servicejm(_at_)seek(_dot_)co(_dot_)nz   Sun Jun 25 03:41:06 2006
.co.nz:   Subject: SEEK Job Mail
.co.nz:    Folder: Webmin                               4571

[snip the rest of the logs]



Im not a procmail expert, but here's my 2 cents:

Well for starters, procmail filters begin with
:0
which some of your filters are missing (some are backwards).  You'll
need to correct that too, or procmail will skip those receipes.

(I think you'll need to re-read 'man procmailrc')


You're putting backslashes \ at the end of your
filenames.  A backslash, followed by nothing, represents a line
continuation.

Recommend that you remove all backslashes.  Please do not change
them to forward slashes: procmail writes to files, not folders.

I also recommend that you log $ORGMAIL, $MAILDIR and $DEFAULT.
Put the following at the top of your .rc file:

LOG="
ORGMAIL $ORGMAIL
MAILDIR $MAILDIR
DEFAULT $DEFAULT
"


Try those changes and watch what happens.


 Birl



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