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Re: Mutt&Procmail recipes ...



* henry nelson <netb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [11-28-03 20:19]:
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> I have procmail installed in my private account area on four different
> machines.  On three of them, procmail works like a charm, but on one of
> them procmail is never invoked.  This is despite having a .forward
> file. My SUSPICION is that the mail server is not configured to deliver
> mail, but just to keep it on the spool.  About all I know is that by
> default, these accounts have a ".popbull" file in them with the content
> of one, literal "0".  I can read, delete, save to my own account, etc.,
> the contents of my default mailbox (/var/mail/$LOGNAME) with Mutt, but
> I can't get pre-processing with procmail.  Anyone know how I might try
> to get that _forward file to be read by the server's mail delivery
> system?

How are you retrieving your mail to the local machine?
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