On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 02:53:08PM +0200, Aleksandar D. Balalovski wrote:
> hello, I've been using Mutt for half a year now, everything was fine.
> Yesterday I changed some of the recipes in procmailrc and since than
> fetchmail/procmail won't put the mail in the preferred mailbox. It
> puts it in /var/spool/mail/myusername.
To see what procmail is doing, just log its actions, grab a coffee, and
sit down to some reading. I have it permanently enabled, just in case:
# Avoid logging clashes. Separate log records.
MAILDIR=/home/erik/mail # Thanks to Bart Schaefer & Ruud H.G. van Tol:
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/tmp_log.$$ # <- Each process uses a temporary log.
FINAL_LOG=$MAILDIR/log # <- Append here, via TRAP, at process exit:
TRAP='procmail -p DEFAULT=$FINAL_LOG /dev/null < $LOGFILE && rm -f $LOGFILE'
If implicated in your recipes, it may be useful to also log some
specifics, such as:
:0 # Unconditionally extract Message-id:
{ MSG_ID=`formail -x"Message-id:"` }
LOG=$MSG_ID
:0
{ TO=`formail -x"To:"` }
LOG=$TO
If logging is left enabled, it's good to delete or rotate the log file every
few months, when it grows over a few tens of megabytes.
I'll let somone else advise on the mutt side of things. (Mine isn't
involved in mail delivery, and I can't see why it should be, at least
when procmail is in use.)
Erik
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