on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 10:21:15PM -0400, Bill Lovett (blovett1@rcn.com) wrote: > A couple times now I've edited my .procmailrc file, unwittingly > screwed something up, and only discovered my mistake after a day or > two goes by with not a peep out of otherwise high traffic lists. Please set your linewrap to 72. > But what happens to a message when procmail gets confused by a broken > recipe? Nothing shows up in in /var/spool/mail. And my .forward file > goes a little something like this: > > "|IFS='' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #username" > > The only explanation I can think of is that procmail is hiding the > messages in the same place the clothes dryer likes to hide some of my > socks from time to time ;) I just ran through a somewhat similar experience. In my case, a global rule was dumping all mail that had reached a certain point in filtering to a single mailbox. I had to go into it and clean things out. You might check your folders for one that's swollen noticeably recently. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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