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Re: Exim - Fetchmail - Procmail



On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, mamomc@virgilio.it wrote:
> Hi!  When I send a message to myself (maurizio) locally exim passes
> the message correctly to procmail (I have a ~/.procmailrc) which
> moves it to ~/Mail/In.... which is read by Mutt.  If I send a
> message to an e-mail address outside my PC world and the I fetch it
> by fetchmail (~/.fetchmailrc knows it has to get something from a
> POP3 server and pass it through to maurizio on my local machine) it
> stops in /var/mail/maurizio, so it's not passed to procamil to be
> treted as I want.  I thought exim could understand that what was
> passed to him by fetchmail was to be delivered to user maurizio
> (myself), who has a ~/.procmailrc so it has to send everything to
> procmail.  What's wrong?  Is the error in Exim, Procmail or
> Fetchmail (without the MDA option it should pass everything to port
> 25 where Exim is listening to, shouldn't it)?  TIA!  Bye, Maurizio.

Might well be a procmail problem.  Remember that /var/mail/maurizio is
there  the post will go if none of your recipes diverts it.  A look at
some of your procmaillog file would help ;-)

Glyn M

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