Re: Why is procmail not filtering my incoming mail

* Harry Putnam <[email protected]> [01-01-70 12:34]:
> I've never had any trouble getting procmail setup and working .. in
> many years of using it and thru many different versions of linux,
> including gentoo.
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> Now on a newish gentoo host I've been setting up that host to retrieve
> mail. Its running sendmail procmail and fetchmail.
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> When I retrieve mail with fetchmail ... procmail never process it.
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> I have .procmailrc of many years standing including many changes of
> course.  But nothing is happening with procmail at all.
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> No lines appear in .procmail.log and all mail lands at
> /var/spool/mail/$myUSER
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> I've had so little trouble with procmail that I cannot even think how
> to figure out what is happening.
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> head of .procmailrc below:
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>   #shell-script-*--
>   PATH=3D/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
>   SHELL=3D/bin/sh
>   DEFAULT=3D/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
>   MAILDIR=3D$HOME/spool/in
>   LOGABSTRACT=3DALL
>   LOGFILE=3D/home/reader/t/var/log/procmail.log
>   LOG=3D"$(echo =

>   START
>   Processing <$FILENO>)
>   "
>   VERBOSE=3DYES
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>   PSCRIPTS=3D"/projects/perl"
>   SCRIPTS=3D"/home/reader/scripts/"
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>   [...]
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> Even if I have screwed up rule... I should at least see something in
> procmail.log right?


show "mda" for fetchmailrc

re sendmail, is it really sendmail or are you running postfix



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