Re: Why is procmail not filtering my incoming mail

"@lbutlr" <[email protected]> writes:

> On 2017-01-05 (17:16 MST), Harry Putnam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> =

>> Now on a newish gentoo host I've been setting up that host to retrieve
>> mail. Its running sendmail procmail and fetchmail.
>
> Is Gentoo your local machine using fetchmail to get mail off the server?

I was on a gentoo host, but now on debian Jessie

> Do you have a .forward to redirect the mail to procmail?

No, just .procmailrc which is all I've ever needed to have procmail
working (There must have been different or better entries in
sendmail.cf)in the past

> Is sendmail in a chroot jail?

No

> Is fetchmail in a chroot jail?

No

Please see my response to Shanew in this thread.  It tells why this
query is no longer in need of answers.  Briefly put, I scrapped a long
used tool fetchmail, for getmail... which is configured to call
procmail and work just fine.

Sorry to have wasted you time and effort.  However, just reading the
direction of these reponses give me a number of clues to a better
understanding of using sendmail.