I compiled and installed fetchmail, as advised from the list, but I am
still having problems getting procmail to run.
I was using popclient to get mail using the following script, run as root.
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#!/bin/sh
ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/root
popclient -3 -u blunier -o $ORGMAIL -P /etc/popclient mail.dataex.com
echo mail retrieved - sorting
if cd $HOME &&
test -s $ORGMAIL &&
lockfile -r0 -l3600 .newmail.lock 2>/dev/null
then
trap "rm -f .newmail.lock" 1 2 3 15
umask 077
lockfile -l3600 -ml
cat $ORGMAIL >>.newmail &&
cat /dev/null >$ORGMAIL
lockfile -mu
formail -s procmail -m /root/.procmail <.newmail &&
rm -f .newmail
rm -f .newmail.lock
fi
echo mail sorted
echo -e '\007'
exit 0
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the /root/.procmail file is as follows
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PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
#DEFAULT=$/var/spool/mail/blunier
MAILDIR=/home/blunier/mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/default
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/logfile
DEBIAN_USER=$MAILDIR/debian-user
DEBIAN_ANNOUNCE=$MAILDIR/debian-announce
DEBIAN_CHANGES=$MAILDIR/debian-changes
MGETTY=$MAILDIR/mgetty
HUMOR=$MAILDIR/humor
:0
* ^TO.*xnet.com.*
! fred
:0 :
* ^TO.*debian-user.*
$DEBIAN_USER
:0 :
* ^TO.*debian-announce.*
$DEBIAN_ANNOUNCE
:0 :
* ^TO.*debian-changes.*
$DEBIAN_CHANGES
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After I installed fetchmail, I copied /root/.procmail to
~blunier/.procmailrc. I also added set ~blunier/.forward to
"|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #blunier"
The mail disapears never to be seen again.
I tried changing the .forward to "| sleep 100". when I did a
ps -aux, it shows that 'nobody' owns the process. I guess that
procmail would also be running under 'nobody'. Since nobody does not have
write access to the groups, would this be why mail is disapearing?
Should I change access permission to the mail directory/folders?
Is there something else that is screwed up in my setup?
Sorry for the long post
Mark W. Blunier
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