On Wednesday 22 December 2010 19:35:33 m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

> Anne Wilson wrote:

> > On Wednesday 22 December 2010 16:51:02 Paul Heinlein wrote:

> >> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:

> >> > On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote:

> >> >> I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message,

> >> >> and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had

> >> >> been allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it

> >> >> that

> >> >>

> >> >> MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/

> >> >>

> >> >> Any idea what might have caused this? It seems to have been

> >> >> working like this only in the last 24 hours or so.

>

> <snip>

>

> > 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.

>

> Dumb question: um, is the ".", rather than "/", a typo, in

> /usr.bin/procmail?

>

Never discount the possibilities :-) Yes, a typo - I'm on the laptop, close to the server.

All the recipes work perfectly - it's just those that fall off the end. For some reason it overrides the DEFAULT setting in procmailrc. This is a recent development, and in the log I see LASTFOLDER - is it possible that DEFAULT is no longer read and I need to define LASTFOLDER?

Anne

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