[CentOS] The case of the missing mail

Wed Dec 22 18:35:29 UTC 2010
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>

On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote:

> > # /etc/procmailrc
> 
> > DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/
> 
> Interesting. I don't have an /etc/procmailrc. Are there other things 
> you'd recommend to place there?

That's all I put in there. It may be worthwhile to take a peek at the 
"Environment variable defaults" section of the procmailrc(5) man page.

Note that /etc/procmailrc is often executed as root, not $USER, so I 
tend to avoid putting anything but variable definitions in it.

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