[CentOS] The case of the missing mail

Wed Dec 22 19:35:33 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

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.
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>
> 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?

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