Procmail battles
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu May 4 15:30:28 UTC 2006
Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:
>
> > How do you receive your email, i.e. how does it end up going through
> > procmail?
>
> An excellent question ... and I'm not sure, which may be the crux of
> the problem. I was under the impression that sendmail, as it is
> configured to use procmail, would process ~/.procmailrc when it
> delivered mail to /var/spool/mail/pmr. Now I'm thinking that that is
> not necessarily the case. Can you confirm? Meanwhile I will see if
> there is an option in sendmail.mc that causes procmail to ignore
> ~/.procmailrc ...
Sendmail is configured to use procmail out of the box for local
delivery, but not everyone receives mail using sendmail - some use
fetchmail to grab mail from their ISP mail server for instance.
The option in sendmail.mc for procmail delivery is:
FEATURE(`local_procmail')dnl
If you have this, local delivery should be via procmail.
> > Check for sensible (e.g. not group or world writeable permissions on
> > your home directory or .procmailrc).
>
> Done.
OK, let's see. What's the output of:
$ ls -ld / /home /home/pmr /home/pmr/.procmailrc
> > Try adding:
> >
> > LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log
> > LOGABSTRACT=yes
> > VERBOSE=1
>
> Done.
>
> > to your ~/.procmailrc after the MAILDIR=/home/pmr/mail line.
> >
> > Then look in /home/pmr/mail/procmail.log after a delivery attempt.
>
> No joy.
The mail goes straight to /var/spool/mail/pmr still? Nothing unusual in
/var/log/maillog?
Paul.
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