Subject: procmail problems! ARGH!

From: [email-masked] (Tracy R. Reed)
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 09:27:21 GMT

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: the mole <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 10:34:23 -0800

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

You need to have a # in front of your username, otherwise 'treed' is 
treated like an argument for frocmail (which doesn't exist):

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

On the system I'm on this syntax works fine:

"|IFS=' ' && exec /home/ma/csgrad1/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #treed"

hth,

tm
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From: Doug Hughes <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 21:26:37 -0600 (CST)

problems with procmail deleted

We have replaced the local delivery agent (binmail) with
procmail as described in the Install instructions on the same
type machine running same OS and it works flawlessly (with
sendmail8.6.9). Perhaps not what you wanted to hear, just letting
you know that it does work.

____________________________________________________________________________
Doug Hughes					Engineering Network Services
System/Net Admin  				Auburn University
			[email-masked]
		"Real programmers use cat > file.as"

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From: "W F (Will) Sill" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 18:44:35 -0500

When I SUBSCRIBE to a NEWSGROUP in PINE, should I not expect to see 
posting to that group in my PINE INBOX?

[email-masked]  - the unofficial Mayor of Sill Hill

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:18:20 -0800

No, subscribing to a newsgroup only lists that group as a folder in your
News-Collection, it does not cause anything else to happen... 

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On Mon, 6 Feb 1995, W F (Will) Sill wrote:

> Date: Mon, 6 FEB 1995 18:44:35 -0500
> From: W F (Will) Sill <[email-masked]>
> Newgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: NEWSGROUP postings to INBOX???
> 
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