Re: procmail and imap?

["Scott R. Ehrlich" <user=81@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, David Kramer wrote: 

> Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: 
>> I have procmail set up on another account to help filter spam. 
>> 
>> I also sometimes use Thunderbird via IMAP to check email. 
>> 
>> While Thunderbird was open, I used it to check my email.   An item that 
>> procmail _should_ have picked up ended up in my inbox. 
>> 
>> So, what takes precedence - procmail, an imap connection, or whoever gets 
>> to it first? 
> 
> If everything is configured properly procmail is the process that puts the 
> mail in the mailbox.  Your MTA (sendmail, postfix, etc) should be configured 
> to deliver the mail to procmail, which puts it in the right IMAP folder. 
> 
> It may be that the procmail rule is not working as you expected.  You can 
> debug the problem by setting "LOGFILE=$HOME/foo.log" and "VERBOSE=YES" in 
> your .procmailrc file. 
>