What version of procmail do you have (what's the output when you run "procmail -v")? What flags is fetchmail calling procmail with? Does fetchmail inject the message via SMTP into your machine's MTA when procmail is off? If so, do you have better results running procmail from your .forward?
-Daniel On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:28:42PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Daniel Eisenbud wrote: > > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:42:52 -0500 > > To: Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: Daniel Eisenbud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > CC: David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mutt Users' List" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox? > > > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:43:00PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/ > > > :0 > > > * ^Subject*\[lug\]* > > > blug > > > > > > :0 > > > * ^Subject*\[corrado-l\]* > > > corrado > > > > > > :0 > > > * * > > > Inbox > > > > You _really_ need to change each of the ":0" lines to ":0:" so that > > procmail will lock the mailboxes. This could be how the mailbox got > > corrupted in the first place. > > > Done. Thanks for the tip. > I'm still hosing my mailbox, though, at least when procmail is in the > mix. I cleared out what was in > there, added the extra colon to :0, and then ran fetchmail. > 2 messages were downloaded, when I ran mutt, I got the message > that the file was not a mailbox. > > So I cleared the mail file again, > sent another test message from hotmail, removed this line from > the .fetchmailrc: "mda procmail", and then ran again. This time > the mailbox was okay. So I guess somehow I'm running procmail > incorrectly, or else it's misconfigured in the .procmailrc. > > At least I have an idea what was hosing it before, but I don't > know how to get filtering working. > > > > -Daniel > > > > -- > > Daniel E. Eisenbud > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > "We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of > > undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed > > hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms." > > --Henry David Thoreau, "Walking" > -- > - > Sean LeBlanc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Stop corporate welfare. Repeal the H1-B program now: > http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/ > Auctioning many Linux, Java, NT, SilverStream books: > >http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItems&userid=tparkin > IM me: Yahoo: seanleblancathome ICQ: 138565743 MSN: seanleblancathome AIM: > sleblancathome > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Daniel E. Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms." --Henry David Thoreau, "Walking"
