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To: Tor Stormwall <tor@agent.creson.com>
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Subject: Re: Regarding Procmail on FreeBSD
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Tor Stormwall wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have a problem with my procmail I just installed on my -RELEASE 4.4
> system. I created a .procmailrc file like this (found at procmail.org):
>
> #Preliminaries
> HOME=/home/tor
> SHELL=/bin/sh               #Use the Bourne shell (check your path!)
> MAILDIR=${HOME}/mail            #First check what your mail directory is!
> LOGFILE=${HOME}/procmail.log
> LOG="--- Logging ${LOGFILE} for ${LOGNAME}, "
>
> # Accept all the rest to your default mailbox
> :0:
> Inbox
>
> The thing is that all mail dissapear when I'm fetching them
> with fetchmail. When I remove the .procmailrc file everything
> works as before again.

Hi Tor,

Try adding a default line like so:

DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Inbox

instead of that first recipe. Also doublecheck that your mail directory is
indeed "mail" and not "Mail".

HTH,

Dru


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