[CentOS] The case of the missing mail

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Wed Dec 22 17:39:56 UTC 2010


On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On 12/22/2010 11:19 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>
>> > /var/log/maillog will usually supply part of the answer as well.
>>
>> There's nothing obvious, at first scan. Everything seems to be 
>> "Delivered to command /usr.bin/procmail" which of course is 
>> correct. The only messages affected are thos which should be in my 
>> Inbox, having failed to match any recipe.
>
> If you have VERBOSE on in your .procmailrc it should log what it does
> with each message.

I usually don't rely on user .procmailrc files to specify INBOX 
locations. Instead, I set the DEFAULT variable in /etc/procmailrc, 
e.g.,

   # /etc/procmailrc
   DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/

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