Re: New user setup questions
* George <d1945@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [07-23-04 11:11]:
>
> Tom, I tried typing 'procmail -v ina terminal' and bash gave me an
> error, but
> I did find the '-v' switch did work. If you spent as much time as I
> have in
> the ms.public hierarchy you may find that funny.
>
> Seems procmail has noticed my ~/.procmailrc, but is ignoring my settings
> and
> instead is creating /var/spool/mail/george which, I guess, would be fine for
> the moment except for following rude but informative output:
>
> ...
> fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error
> fetchmail: smtp listener protocol error
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to /usr/bin/procmail
> -d %T#****************************procmail: Suspicious rcfile
> "/home/george/.procmailrc"
> procmail: Couldn't read "/home/george/.procmailrc"
> not flushed
> ...
>
> I'm still going through the docs, but if someone has a tip, I'm all ears.
I use only ~/.procmailrc. I would suggest removing /etc/procmailrc
and only using the one in /home/xxxx
Your mail spool should be /var/spool/mail/[log-name]
run fetchmailconf and check protocals
fetchmail is saying that it cannot connect to procmail
you are delivering to either:
mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d %T'
or
mda '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -oem -f %F %T'
in .fetchmailrc
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