Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: > The procmail issue is very specific; apparently it affects only messages > addressed to me at my business domain. I can confirm that this is the case. Adding a procmail recipe to place business mail in my personal folder has produced messages that o

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: > I just now added me to the group 'mail'. This has nothing to do with the problem. I sent a test message from my personal domain to my business domain; it ended up in the mbox file for the former. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | I

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Jason Dagit wrote: > It sounds like procmail is doing the right thing and has been for a long > time. The procmail issue is very specific; apparently it affects only messages addressed to me at my business domain. The vanishing messages from gte.net, a company with its own

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Jason Dagit wrote: > I haven't read this thread closely, but from what I have seen I don't > know the solution. Your setup is somewhat complex with the various > layers. Yeah. It goes Postfix -> Procmail -> mail folder. > It sounds like procmail is doing the right thing a

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jason Dagit wrote: > >> Oh my. You still use mbox? > > Jason, > >   That's apparently the default with pine/alpine. It's worked for a dozen > years, and seems appropriate since I use the same box as both the (mail) > serve

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, drew wymore wrote: > Here's a blob for converting mbox to maildir. > http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ Drew, Thank you. I need to make time to learn what might break if I make this change. I'm sure there are other components that would need to be changed, to

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-26 Thread drew wymore
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jason Dagit wrote: > > > Oh my. You still use mbox? > > Jason, > > That's apparently the default with pine/alpine. It's worked for a dozen > years, and seems appropriate since I use the same box as both the (mail) > serv

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jason Dagit wrote: > Oh my. You still use mbox? Jason, That's apparently the default with pine/alpine. It's worked for a dozen years, and seems appropriate since I use the same box as both the (mail) server and my workstation. If there's a smooth transition to maildir, I'

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > It would take a few seconds to do the test. > Do it. Michael, From ~/.pinerc: # Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={mail.somewhere.edu}inbox # Normal Unix default is the local INBOX (usually /usr/spool/mail/$USER). inbox-path=/var/spool/mai

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:03:23PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: >Here's ~/.procmailrc: > > # set to yes when debugging > VERBOSE=3 > > # Remove ## when debugging; set to no if you want minimal logging; to all > # for max. > LOGABSTRACT=all > >

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-25 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, drew wymore wrote: > >> Does anything show up in /var/log/maillog? > >   Yes. That's how I know that postfix received the message and passed it to > procmail. > >> Since it's in mbox format you should be able to cat the ma

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 06:16:54AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > > Since it's in mbox format you should be able to cat the mailbox and grep > > for the message by sender/subject since you know what they are. Maybe it's > > an MUA issue and not the MTA which is unlikely but possible. > >I don't

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, drew wymore wrote: > Does anything show up in /var/log/maillog? Yes. That's how I know that postfix received the message and passed it to procmail. > Since it's in mbox format you should be able to cat the mailbox and grep > for the message by sender/subject since you kno

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-25 Thread drew wymore
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > > > well, you could post your procmailrc here and tell us all that you know > > about a message that disappears (sender, subject, and anything else that > > might be affected by whatever filter

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > well, you could post your procmailrc here and tell us all that you know > about a message that disappears (sender, subject, and anything else that > might be affected by whatever filter rules you have in place in procmial). Chris, Here's ~/.pr

Re: [PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-24 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 16:52, Rich Shepard wrote: >   Last week I asked for ideas on where incoming mail went after postfix > found the incoming connection. I discovered that the messages were passed > from qmgr to /usr/bin/procmail but they never showed up in my inbox. > >   I found and signed u

[PLUG] Procmail Problem

2009-03-24 Thread Rich Shepard
Last week I asked for ideas on where incoming mail went after postfix found the incoming connection. I discovered that the messages were passed from qmgr to /usr/bin/procmail but they never showed up in my inbox. I found and signed up for a procmail mail list and posted a query there on what