Subject: procmail problems

From: [email-masked] (Tracy R. Reed)
Date: 1 Feb 1995 20:45:04 GMT

Subject: procmail problems! ARGH!
Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine
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I am trying to set up procmail so that I can sort mail according to 
mailing list, etc. I am having tons of problems. My machine in a 
SPARCserver 10 running SunOS. My .forward file is:

"|/home/ma/csgrad1/treed/bin/procmail treed"

And my .procmailrc file is:

PATH=/home/ma/csgrad1/treed/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail      #you'd better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox   #completely optional
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from   #recommended

:0:
* [email-masked]
from_me

:0
* ^Subject:.*Flame
/dev/null

I grabbed this example out of the man pages for procmail. It should put 
all messages from me into the folder from_me. I am pretty sure the 
forward is working because mail would not get through before, then I 
checked the forward man page and got the correct syntax for SunOS. Now I 
think the problem must be in the .procmailrc file. It isn't sorting 
anything, just dropping it straight through to the default inbox folder. 
I have tried tons of combinations and other procmailrc files from the 
mail filtering faq and procmail docs. None seem to work. :( Any suggestions?

--
Tracy Reed
Aerospace Engineering
San Diego State University

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From: "Michael J. Corrigan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 1995 11:39:58 -0800

The form you have is telling procmail to look for a procmail rcfile
with the filename "treed"
Try:
"|/home/ma/csgrad1/treed/bin/procmail #treed"