Re: Using Procmail - mail won't deliver to Default
Subject: Using Procmail - mail won't deliver to Default
Date: Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 06:14:13AM -0600
In reply to:Lance Hoffmeyer
Quoting Lance Hoffmeyer(lanceh@ibm.net):
>
> in .procmailrc
>
> SHELL = /bin/sh
> MAILDIR =$HOME/Mail
> LOGFILE =$HOME/_logfile
> VERBOSE = yes
> LOGABSTRACT = no
> PATH =
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin/mh
> DEFAULT=Inbox
> #ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
>
> but mail does not go to Inbox. I have also tried
>
> DEFAULT /$HOME/Mail/Inbox
> and
> #Default
>
> I am getting the _logfile so what have I got wrong in the syntax to
> prevent me from getting mail in /$HOME/Mail/Inbox. There is an Inbox in
> /Mail.
>
> Lance
The answer to the above can be found in man procmailrc. Reading the
man pages answers 50%i, or more, of questions people post to mailing
lists and newsgroups. In says past asking questions like the above
would have received the response RTFM.
Times are changing, some.
--
The Softwære said "Windows 95 or better", so I dumped Win95 & loaded LINUX.
I have not looked back since.
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Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@ix.netcom.com>
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