Re: Mutt&Procmail recipes ...

[Adam Bogacki <afb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

'Davidtg' wrote ...

> Sorry for the delay...  I see below that you had problems with mutt and
> are using Mozilla, but if you don't use proper threading *and* change the
> Subject: line your mail is almost certain to be overlooked :-/
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>  

Yep, I'll try to do it better with a shorter subject line.

> % them. It might be relevant that during that time I changed from
> % Mail to $MAILDIR mode and may have changed something inappropriately.
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> Maybe.  It seems to me more likely that you changed your .forward ...

I'm not sure what you are referring to here. None of the examples I used 
to set up
muttrc and procmailrc had a '.forward' entry.

> % I have attached my environmental variables below for comment.
> % They are followed in procmail by SpamAssassin stuff, then recipes.
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>  
> OK.  How do you think you're getting mail to procmail?  Are you sure you
> are?

No.  The bottom of my current procmaillog is

> procmail: Executing "/usr/bin/formail,-D,8192,.msgid.cache"
> procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/bin/formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache"
> procmail: Unlocking "msgid.lock"
> procmail: Notified comsat: "adam@:/usr/bin/formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache"
> From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Nov 28 14:48:32 2003
>  Subject: Warning: message 1AP6jl-0000WS-1V delayed 24 hours
>   Folder: /usr/bin/formail -D 8192 
> .msgid.cache                             473
>                                                            
> 4589,3        Bot

I hope you make more sense of it than I do.

I'll keep trying to subscribe to procmail-users at Aachen, hopefully 
it's just a periodic
bandwidth problem.

> If you comment out MAILDIR, ...
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> % >SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
> % >DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/INBOX
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>  
> ... then how will your DEFAULT or LOGFILE or other work?
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>  

Hmm... I've uncommented it, we'll see what happens tomorrow morning.

> % >LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmaillog
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>  
> And is this, in fact, where you find your procmail log file?
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>  

See below.

Tux:/# find -name procmaillog -print
./home/adam/Mail/procmaillog
./home/adam/.themes/adam/Mail/procmaillog
./home/adam/.themes/.themes/adam/Mail/procmaillog
./home/adam/.themes/.themes/.themes/adam/Mail/procmaillog

> And so what do you get if you save off this message and run
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>   cat /path/to/msg | procmail -Ytf-
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> to filter it?  Does it show up in the log?  Does it land anywhere?
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>  


Tux:~# cat path/to/msg | procmail -Ytf-
cat: path/to/msg: No such file or directory
procmail: [2214] Fri Nov 28 21:29:09 2003
procmail: Assigning "PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin"
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/root/Mail"
procmail: Assigning "DEFAULT=/root/Mail/INBOX"
procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=/root/Mail/.procmaillog"
procmail: Opening "/root/Mail/.procmaillog"

Having a look at procmaillog ...

procmail: Executing "/usr/bin/formail,-D,8192,.msgid.cache"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/usr/bin/formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache"
procmail: Unlocking "msgid.lock"
procmail: Notified comsat: "adam@:/usr/bin/formail -D 8192 .msgid.cache"
From MAILER-DAEMON Fri Nov 28 14:48:32 2003
Subject: Warning: message 1AP6jl-0000WS-1V delayed 24 hours
 Folder: /usr/bin/formail -D 8192 
.msgid.cache                             473
                                                          4589,3        Bot

... does not show it, unless I am looking in the wrong place.

Tux/: find -name /path/to/msg -print
... finds nothing.

The fact I'm unable to mail out via Mutt suggests a need to
config exim2 - can you suggest a good reference ?


Adam Bogacki,
afb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx