Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> How do you receive your email, i.e. how does it end up going through
> procmail?
An excellent question ... and I'm not sure, which may be the crux of
the problem. I was under the impression that sendmail, as it is
configured to use procmail, would process ~/.procmailrc when it
delivered mail to /var/spool/mail/pmr. Now I'm thinking that that is
not necessarily the case. Can you confirm? Meanwhile I will see if
there is an option in sendmail.mc that causes procmail to ignore
~/.procmailrc ...
Sendmail is configured to use procmail out of the box for local
delivery, but not everyone receives mail using sendmail - some use
fetchmail to grab mail from their ISP mail server for instance.
The option in sendmail.mc for procmail delivery is:
FEATURE(`local_procmail')dnl
If you have this, local delivery should be via procmail.
> Check for sensible (e.g. not group or world writeable permissions on
> your home directory or .procmailrc).
Done.
OK, let's see. What's the output of:
$ ls -ld / /home /home/pmr /home/pmr/.procmailrc
> Try adding:
>
> LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log
> LOGABSTRACT=yes
> VERBOSE=1
Done.
> to your ~/.procmailrc after the MAILDIR=/home/pmr/mail line.
>
> Then look in /home/pmr/mail/procmail.log after a delivery attempt.
No joy.
The mail goes straight to /var/spool/mail/pmr still? Nothing unusual in
/var/log/maillog?
Paul.
