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Re: Mutt&Procmail recipes ...



Henry --

...and then henry nelson said...
% 
% On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 08:29:37PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
% > * henry nelson <netb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [11-28-03 20:19]:
% >  [snip ...] 
% > > them procmail is never invoked.  This is despite having a .forward
% > > file. My SUSPICION is that the mail server is not configured to deliver
...
% > 
% > How are you retrieving your mail to the local machine?
% 
% Essentially it's already on the local machine (actually an nfs partition
% [Is that the problem?]), in the mailbox, "/var/mail/$LOGNAME."  Just evoke

It sure sounds like it.  If it's on the local machine because the local
machine went and got it rather than it being delivered there then it's no
wonder it never sees your .forward!

That mail gets written to a disk somewhere on some machine.  How and
where does it get written to that disk?  *That* is where you need for
your .forward file to be available and for procmail to run.


HTH & HAND

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