On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Daniel Eisenbud wrote:
> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:29:35 -0500
> To: Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: Daniel Eisenbud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mutt Users' List"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
>
> What version of procmail do you have (what's the output when you run
> "procmail -v")? What flags is fetchmail calling procmail with? Does
> fetchmail inject the message via SMTP into your machine's MTA when
> procmail is off? If so, do you have better results running procmail
> from your .forward?
bash-2.05$ procmail -v
procmail v3.21 2001/06/29
Copyright (c) 1990-1999, Stephen R. van den Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Philip A. Guenther
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Submit questions/answers to the procmail-related mailinglist by sending to:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
And of course, subscription and information requests for this list to:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Locking strategies: dotlocking, lockf()
Default rcfile: $HOME/.procmailrc
Your system mailbox: /var/mail/sean
As for the other questions:
The only line dealing with procmail in the .fetchmailrc was this:
mda procmail
The whole .fetchmailrc looked like this:
poll <myserver> protocol POP3 username <myusername> password <mypassword>
mda procmail
Now, it's the same as above, just no "mda procmail" in there.
As for injecting SMTP into my machines MTA, I dunno. Without procmail,
the data ended up in /var/mail/sean, and not hosed. I don't know if
it went via sendmail or some other MTA (I never set up sendmail, either,
btw). I don't know how to set up procmail via .forward, I haven't
looked into that yet. I saw references to it was I was reading other
docs, but didn't know .forward could be used that way.
> -Daniel
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:28:42PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Daniel Eisenbud wrote:
> > > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:42:52 -0500
> > > To: Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > From: Daniel Eisenbud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > CC: David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mutt Users' List"
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:43:00PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/
> > > > :0
> > > > * ^Subject*\[lug\]*
> > > > blug
> > > >
> > > > :0
> > > > * ^Subject*\[corrado-l\]*
> > > > corrado
> > > >
> > > > :0
> > > > * *
> > > > Inbox
> > >
> > > You _really_ need to change each of the ":0" lines to ":0:" so that
> > > procmail will lock the mailboxes. This could be how the mailbox got
> > > corrupted in the first place.
> >
> >
> > Done. Thanks for the tip.
> > I'm still hosing my mailbox, though, at least when procmail is in the
> > mix. I cleared out what was in
> > there, added the extra colon to :0, and then ran fetchmail.
> > 2 messages were downloaded, when I ran mutt, I got the message
> > that the file was not a mailbox.
> >
> > So I cleared the mail file again,
> > sent another test message from hotmail, removed this line from
> > the .fetchmailrc: "mda procmail", and then ran again. This time
> > the mailbox was okay. So I guess somehow I'm running procmail
> > incorrectly, or else it's misconfigured in the .procmailrc.
> >
> > At least I have an idea what was hosing it before, but I don't
> > know how to get filtering working.
> >
> >
> > > -Daniel
> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniel E. Eisenbud
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> > > --Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"
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> Daniel E. Eisenbud
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> "We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of
> undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed
> hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms."
> --Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"
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