Re: Understanding procmail error

Bart Schaefer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.procmail
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Richard Reina <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am getting this error whenever getmail passes messages to procmail:
>
> procmail: Opening "/home/richard/.pmdir/log")
>   msg 2/2 (2358 bytes) from <[email protected]>, delivery error (command
> procmail 21157 wrote to stderr: procmail: [21157] Mon Jan 24 12:53:58 2011

This just means that your procmailrc has set VERBOSE=yes before
assigning a value to LOGFILE.  Consequently the log about the
assignment of LOGFILE goes to stderr.

Move the VERBOSE assignment to below the LOGFILE assignment and this
(harmless, spurious) error from getmail should go away.

(The contents of the log file are irrelevant in this particular
instance, as they all happen after the [not-really-an-]error has
already occurred.)
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