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Date:      Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:15:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ken Bolingbroke <hacker@bolingbroke.com>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: mail.local 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002091708030.93304-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000208175652.0230b100@mail.cpl.net>

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On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Shawn Ramsey wrote:

> Well that works great... except any user who has a .procmailrc file in 
> their home directory, mail isn't delivered. The sendmail log says it was, 
> but it vanishes to /dev/null. Anyone know what is up with that? 

Never had that problem myself.  But sendmail is saying that it's delivered
because it gave it to procmail, and procmail told sendmail that it got it.
So as far as sendmail is concerned, it was delivered.

Now if it's going to /dev/null, it's because procmail thinks that's the
place to send it.  Take a look at your procmail rules and see what you're
telling procmail to do with your mail.  My global procmailrc in
/usr/local/etc/procmailrc includes a "LOGFILE=/blah" line that logs
everything procmail does, just in case some of my procmail recipes does
things I didn't intend them to do...  Do something like that, and you
should see why procmail is routing mail to /dev/null.

Ken Bolingbroke
hacker@bolingbroke.com



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