Debugging procmail

[Duane Morin]

Sorry --

My mailer is postfix, and in /etc/postfix I have:

./main.cf:mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -Y -a $DOMAIN


I've tried everything that people have suggested (creating the log, 
turning on verbose and logabstract) but still I'm getting nothing.

Could the .forward file actually be clashing with procmail somehow?  
Gonna try turning that off next...nope, doesnt seem to change anything if 
I get rid of my .forward file.


Duane

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Chris Devers wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Duane Morin wrote:
> 
> > Clues?  Is procmail dumping its output someplace I can look?
> 
> I think we may need more information about your set up -- what mail server
> software are you using, and are you sure it is invoking things properly,
> etc. Without knowing a little bit more, the most I can do is guess -- but
> maybe others can glean more than I can :-)
> 
> That said, one of the best things you can do in your ~/.procmailrc is to
> generate a log file. That'll at least tell you if procmail is being
> invoked in the first place. It's great for debugging, and personally I
> like leaving a `tail -f` running on my log file to let me know what mail I
> have coming in & where it's getting filed away.
> 
> My ~/.procmailrc was written mostly by reading Nancy McGough's tutorials
> at <http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs>. (Note: url is LONG,
> not very well organized, occasionally repetitive, etc -- but there is a
> lot of decent information there.) I've pasted the relevant bits from my
> ~/.procmailrc below; feel free to use & adapt it as you see fit:
> 
>     # Next may be needed if you invoke programs from your procmailrc
>     # Details in Check Your $SHELL and $PATH in Troubleshooting below
>     SHELL=/usr/bin/bash
> 
>     # Directory for storing procmail configuration and log files
>     # You can name this environment variable anything you like
>     # or, if you prefer, don't set it (but then don't refer to it!)
>     PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
> 
>     # Put ## before LOGFILE if you want no logging (not recommended)
>     LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
> 
>     # To insert a blank line between each message's log entry,
>     # uncomment next two lines (this is helpful for debugging)
>     LOG="
>     "
> 
>     # Set to yes when debugging
>     VERBOSE=no
> 
>     # Remove ## when debugging; set to no if you want minimal logging
>     ##LOGABSTRACT=all
> 
>     # Replace $HOME/Msgs with your mailbox directory
>     # Mutt and elm use $HOME/Mail
>     # Pine uses $HOME/mail
>     # Netscape Messenger uses $HOME/nsmail
>     # Some NNTP clients, such as slrn & nn, use $HOME/News
>     # Mailboxes in maildir format are often put in $HOME/Maildir
>     # NOTE: Upon reading the next line, Procmail does a chdir to
>     #       $MAILDIR and relative paths are relative to $MAILDIR
>     MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
> 
>     # Everything above has been "infrastructure", setting up how the
>     # procmail system will work for me. The next few lines call in
>     # the actual recipes. Once nice thing about doing it this way is
>     # that it's easy to comment out a whole block of rules if needed,
>     # or rearrange the order in which they get called, etc.
>     INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/personal_mail
>     INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/antispam
>     INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/work
>     INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/mailing_lists
> 
>     # Messages that fall through all your procmail recipes are delivered
>     # to your default INBOX
> 
> If you don't see anything useful to you here, you may want to look at
> samples from dotfiles.com too. There is a decent collection of config
> files for various tools there, including procmail.
> 
> 
> 
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