Robert Kuropkat wrote:
hmmm, I liked this suggestion because it seemed so simple:
formail -ds procmail < /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
But testing it on my own mail file does not seem to be working, it's
just hung. It's only 1Mg so I would not expect it to actually take long
to process.
I am using sendmail. I go look up the sendmail equivalent to what you
suggest.
It is a BAD idea to do that with /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
If something goes wrong with the delivery *again* then it will be
writing the messages back to /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME while you are
reading from the file. Double the messages, double the fun, every time
you try it and fail.
cp /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME /home/$LOGNAME/tempmbox
rm /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
formail -ds procmail < /home/$LOGNAME/tempmbox
Now, all that being said, I have a question.
Is *ALL* of your email delivered to the final destination through
*PROCMAIL RECIPES*?
Eg. does every piece of mail on your system pass through procmail even
if the final recipient does not have a ~/.procmailrc?
If procmail doesn't normally touch *EVERY SINGLE* piece of mail on your
system then you need to figure out how to use the MTA re-injection
method to allow thw MTA to handle redelivery.
G2
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