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Re: Incorrect Resolution of $HOME Variable

2009-03-27 23:09:05
On 27-Mar-2009, at 12:56, James Butler wrote:
What could cause this problem of Procmail not recognizing
the value of the $HOME environment variable correctly:

1) echo $HOME
/home/username

2) procmail -v
procmail v3.22 2001/09/10
...
Locking strategies:     dotlocking, fcntl(), lockf(), flock()
Default rcfile:         /etc/procmailrc
Your system mailbox:    $HOME/Maildir/username/

### NOTE: Procmail did not resolve the $HOME variable!

my procmail gives:

$ procmail -v
procmail v3.22 2001/09/10
    Copyright (c) 1990-2001, Stephen R. van den Berg    <srb(_at_)cuci(_dot_)nl>
Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Philip A. Guenther <guenther(_at_)sendmail(_dot_)com>

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Locking strategies:     dotlocking, lockf()
Default rcfile:         $HOME/.procmailrc
Your system mailbox:    /var/mail/root


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