On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:37:23AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:32:56AM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Well the last thing I need is to get procmail working, if I can't I > may end up just abandoning Debian altogether (I'm not threatening it, > but it's just really annoying, and I NEED procmail, it's not even a > "nice thing to use", I NEED it). > > I really don't get why Getmail won't feed the mail into Procmail...It > just hangs, I'm getting no errors or anything. > my setup uses fetchmail, exim4 and procmail. this is my understanding. pop3 server \/ fetchmail \/ exim4 \/ mail spool \/ exim4 \/ procmail \/ ~/Maildir's when I had issues with smtp-auth, I used fetchmail with verbose output options (-v, --verbose ) and procmail also has this. there is also ´tail -f /var/log/exim4/mainlog' (at least for exim4) to monitor exim4s actions. the first few lines of my .procmail are: ------------------------------------------------------ VERBOSE=yes PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir # Maildir DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/lastmbox #where unknow mail goes LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from #recommended :0fh: |formail -I"X-procmail: started" ... ------------------------------------------------------ Notice the VERBOSE and LOGFILE settings. this should provide able information for debugging purposes. HTH, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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