On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 03:31:39PM +0200, Stefan Friedle wrote: > I use fetchmail to fetch mail from my POP account and use procmail to > deliver it to my local maildir (~/Maildir/inbox/). All with cygwin on > Windows NT. In my .fetchmailrc there is a line: > > mda: 'procmail -m D:/home/.procmailrc' > > which calls procmail and passes the filename of my .procmailrc to it. > Without this procmail fails, telling me that > /var/spool/mail/Administrator could not be created -- but I don't use > 'Administrator' as my login name ...
Hi Stefan, FYI, there has just been some discussion of this issue on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. It seems the -m option causes odd behavior with regard to the Administrator. My problem with the -m option had to do with ^From_headers. On the other hand, it seems to work for you...? Tom On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:16:45PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > My WAG is that you are using the procmail "-m" option, because there > have been other recent posts reporting this problem. If I'm correct, > don't do that. Instead invoke procmail (via fetchmail) as follows: > > # from ~/.fetchmailrc > mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
