[CentOS] The case of the missing mail

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 22 18:21:51 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:39:56 Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 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/

Interesting.  I don't have an /etc/procmailrc.  Are there other things you'd 
recommend to place there?

Anne
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