Sean --

...and then Sean LeBlanc said...
% 
% On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Daniel Eisenbud wrote:
% > 
% > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:43:00PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc
% > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
% > > MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/
% > > :0
...
% > 
% > You _really_ need to change each of the ":0" lines to ":0:" so that
...
% 
% 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. 

How interesting.  Is Inbox a symlink to /var/mail/sean?  I don't see how
your procmail rules as shown would put anything in there in the first
place.


% 
% 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.

Hokay.  Could you put up a pointer to your procmailrc file for review?



% 
% At least I have an idea what was hosing it before, but I don't 
% know how to get filtering working.

It should all work fine.  I'm interested in how this works out.


% 
% -- 
% -
% Sean LeBlanc, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
% 

That's a lotta blank lines at the end of your signature, pal :-)


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