(OT-ish:) procmail eating messages -- why?

[Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>]

my previous posts got lost in a thread above, i think, so i'm
rephrasing the question as it now stands:

trying to implement spamassassin with procmail, i installed the
former, and then put the following in the latter, as directed:

:0f
| /usr/local/bin/spamassassin -P

(i'd tried it without the -P flag, but that didn't work at all.)

however, even with the -P back in, downloaded mail was just getting
eaten and piped off to some oblivion.  i had to comment out the above
recipe completely to start getting mail again in any form.  i see why
it wouldn't work without the -P flag, but with it ...?

any help would be appreciated.  tia,

</nori>

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