The rule in your procmail is doing as its told... from what John Clarke told me the c in the directive means copy to file you state.
Have a read of this, as John sent me yesterday. I believe a section will describe your fault. You need to add another rule to the end of your procmailrc to tell it which mailbox to delivery too. -- snip -- Tips: when playing with new rules (especially until you're comfortable with procmail) save a backup copy of messages *before* the new rules (see man procmailex for a rule to do this); always use a lock file when writing to a file; when writing to a pipe a lock file is optional but must be explicitly named. Implicit lock filenames are only allowed when writing to a file (the name is based on the filename). To use an explicit lock filename, put the name after the second ':', e.g.: :0 c: .sa.lock * < 256000 | sa-learn --spam :0: Mail/probably-spam/ This rule pipes any message less than 256000 bytes in size to sa-learn, telling it to treat it as spam, using .sa.lock as the lock file, followed by a rule to save it in a mailbox (Maildir format) called "Mail/probably-spam". This is a trap I have on one particular address which gets not much other than spam. Anything expected is filtered out before this rule, the rest is almost certainly spam. If it's not, I simply pipe it to "sa-learn --ham" to reverse the previous learning. Another useful rule is one that filters duplicate messages: :0 Wh: msgid.lock | formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache It stores message ids in .msgid.cache, and if there's a match, formail returns 0 which causes procmail to consider the mail delivered and terminate. If there's no match, it returns a non-zero value so procmail continues processing the rules which follow. Procmail is highly cryptic, very powerful, and very unforgiving and therefore dangerous. It's also very useful and I couldn't live without it. -- snip -- On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:02:24 +1100 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is the only rule in my .procmailrc: > > :0 c > /home/david/BackupAllEmails > > and .forward looks like this: > > |/usr/bin/procmail > > Unfortunately, it dumps incoming mail into the backup file, but doesn't > also pass it through to the local mail delivery. What have I done wrong? > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
