Procmail does not seem to react
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From: Mark S Bilk on 26 Nov 2009 11:12 On Nov 26, 3:15 am, houghi <hou...(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote: > When I retrieve my mail with fetchmail or when I use `mail houghi` it > looks as if the .procmailrc file is not being used. > > Is there anything I must do to so it will be working again? In my system, the .fetchmailrc and .procmailrc files are in my home account directory, and fetchmail calls procmail. Here is .fetchmailrc. The second line is indented with two space characters: poll mail.server.name proto pop3 user "username" pass "password" fetchall limit 0 mda "procmail -f -" mail.server.name, username, and password are substituted here for the actual ones for my ISP, but the punctuation is as shown. I run fetchmail as a user. fetchmail and procmail are both in /usr/bin, which is on my personal PATH. > You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. > Don't ever count on having both at once. > -- Robert A. Heinlein Thanks for that! Two videos of a great song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog&channel=muse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf8bKkXU_2s&feature=related
From: David Bolt on 26 Nov 2009 11:46 On Thursday 26 Nov 2009 11:15, while playing with a tin of spray paint, houghi painted this mural: > When I retrieve my mail with fetchmail or when I use `mail houghi` it > looks as if the .procmailrc file is not being used. > > Is there anything I must do to so it will be working again? You haven't corrupted ~/.forward have you? I couldn't get procmail working without having .forward containing: "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #davjam" Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 11.2 32b openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | TOS 4.02
From: Mark S Bilk on 26 Nov 2009 14:39 On Nov 26, 8:46 am, David Bolt <blacklist...(a)davjam.org> wrote: > You haven't corrupted ~/.forward have you? I couldn't get procmail > working without having .forward containing: > > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #davjam" So that's a totally different way of invoking procmail. I must be backward -- I don't even have a .forward .
From: Paul J Gans on 27 Nov 2009 16:37 houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote: >When I retrieve my mail with fetchmail or when I use `mail houghi` it >looks as if the .procmailrc file is not being used. >Is there anything I must do to so it will be working again? Yes. Please discuss this somewhere where the developers of procmail can see it. They don't usually read this newsgroup. Or perhaps you could file a bug report. -- --- Paul J. Gans
From: David Bolt on 28 Nov 2009 11:02
On Saturday 28 Nov 2009 12:28, while playing with a tin of spray paint, houghi painted this mural: > Mark S Bilk wrote: >> So that's a totally different way of invoking procmail. >> I must be backward -- I don't even have a .forward . I don't know why it didn't work for me without the .forward but, after adding it, it's been working just fine and I'm loath to break things just to see if I can get it working without it. > I think I broke it. Now mail does not arrive anymore at all. Not even > internal mail. I deinstalled postfix and tried sendmail and then back to > postfix. I've used Sendmail for years, starting with SuSE 6.1, and have no knowledge about Postfix so can't help there. It's one of the thinks I change when starting an installation, and I need to check the repair system for 11.2 as the one for 11.1 explicitly wants to add Postfix when doing an automatic repair rather than checking for the presence of a mail server. Going to be adding a bug report for that if the issue is still present. > I also removed procmail to get stuff done seriously. > Also to make it easier, I deleted the /var/log/mail* files. Pity. They may have contained a possible pointer to what was broken. > Now I can start postfix, but nothing else happens. Unable to send any > internal mail, no logfiles created. Nothing. Nothing at all? What happens if you telnet to your server? Do you see the mailserver's banner? My first debugging tests are to telnet to the server, firstly to check it's actually accepting connections, and then to use the following: ehlo localhost mail from: <$USERNAME@$DOMAIN_NAME> rcpt to: <$USERNAME@$DOMAIN_NAME> data From: <$USERNAME@$DOMAIN_NAME> To: me <$USERNAME@$DOMAIN_NAME> Subject: test this will be the test mail body. .. quit I copy and paste it one line at a time, and have a console open with: sudo tail -F /var/log/mail running in it. The combination of seeing the log file and looking at the responses to the various commands lets me see what's happening and can help debugging. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 10.3 32b | openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 11.2 32b openSUSE 10.3 64b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | TOS 4.02 |