[olug] Procmail?

[Brian Roberson]

I am no postfix guru, but are you sure .forward files are enabled in the MTA configuration? Your procmail config looks fine BTW.
And just for grins, I know I have learned ALOT about procmail over the years just by looking at other people's recipe's.... so here is mine...



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MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/unfiltered
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log
LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail

:0:
* ^Subject:.*\[olug\]
olug

:0:
* ^Subject:.*\[nsp\]
cisco-nsp

:0:
* ^To:.*qmail at list.cr.yp.to
qmail

:0:
* ^To:.*@bstc.net
bstc

:0:
* ^To:.*@samba.org
samba

:0:
* ^Subject:.*\[brian-save\]
save

:0:
* ^To:.*@list.nessus.org
nessus


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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 03:41:21PM -0500, William E. Kempf wrote:
> Bear with me... yet another Linux setup frustration on my part, and I am a
> newbie.
> 
> Running Mandrake 9.0 (finally settled on a Distro, I think, as this is one
> nice setup).  Running Postfix as the MTA, and that configuration appears to
> check out.  I can send e-mail to an outside account, as well to an inside
> account, which appears in the /var/spool/mail/wekempf file.  I've also got
> Fetchmail configured and running, and it's polling my Cox mail account and
> depositing the mail in /var/spool/mail/wekempf.
> 
> I've tried to configure procmail to route the e-mail to my $HOME/Mail
> directory structure.  Here's the relevant files in my $HOME directory.
> 
> # .procmailrc
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox
> PMDIR=$HOME/tmp/procmail
> LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
> :0:
> * ^TO_wekempf at cox.net
> inbox
> 
> # .forward
> |/usr/bin/procmail
> 
> Mail still winds up in /var/spool/mail/wekempf file instead of $HOME/Mail.
> What do I not understand about either the configuration or how things are
> supposed to work here?
> 
> Bill Kempf
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