On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:21:15PM -0400, Bill Lovett wrote: | A couple times now I've edited my .procmailrc file, unwittingly | screwed something up, and only discovered my mistake after a day or | two goes by with not a peep out of otherwise high traffic lists. | | But what happens to a message when procmail gets confused by a | broken recipe?
It depends. If you are matching more than you meant to it might be going into a different folder or the bit bucket. You need to be careful with the regexes that you don't match too much. | Nothing shows up in in /var/spool/mail. And my | .forward file goes a little something like this: | | "|IFS='' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #username" I'm not even going to try and understand this bit of shell and the effects it has on your MTA, etc. My .forward (school's Solaris system) looks like "|exec /home/stu12/s18/dsh8290/bin/procmail" | The only explanation I can think of is that procmail is hiding the | messages in the same place the clothes dryer likes to hide some of | my socks from time to time ;) Do you have "DEFAULT" set in your .procmailrc? -D
