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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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Subject: Re: All mail sent to me for the last 48 hours have been lost..
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> The wonders of procmail...  Enough that it fails on me spontaneously
> every couple of days and starts refusing to run, when I finally
> "disable" it by removing my $HOME/.procmailrc I forget to remove the
> .forward pointing at it, and it forwards all my mail directly to
> /dev/null (you'd think it'd store it someplace, and it even claims
> that it does, but that "someplace" is nowhere I can find!).

It should save your email in your standard 'mail' folder, which is
probably /usr/spool/mail/jkh. :(

> Feh.  I'd say that's soured me on procmail forever more! :(

I've *never* had any problems with it on my box.  Are you sure you've
setup locking correctly and such, so that it doesn't get stuck when lots
of email comes in?


Nate