Re: Procmailrc question
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:38:21PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I once had my email working nicely, but over the last few years
> the setup has decayed. I am now running wheezy with fetchmail to
> get email from my ISP, exim4 to send outgoing email to my ISP, and
> do other things locally, and procmail running in my $home. I have
> no interest in setting up system-wide (i.e. several users) mail
> delivery since I am the only user of email here. I have been keeping
> the same .procmailrc file from well before the transition from
> exim3 to exim4, making ad hoc kludge changes only when absolutely
> forced to, and largely without a clue as to what I was doing.
>
> I once had spamassassin working, but for a long while it has not
> been working. Certainly there has been no evidence of it working
> since I installed xfce under wheezy. Today I noticed in my
> .procmailrc the following line, which is left over from long ago:
>
> PATH=/usr/local/nmh/lib:/usr/local/nmh/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
>
> This line is there for the benefit of the scripting that inplements
> the recipes that follow. But this is wrong for my wheezy!!! In
> particular, everything in /usr was put there by installing wheezy with
> a squeeze business-card CD followed by debian package installs using
> aptitude pointing to ftp.us.debian.org/debian/. Aptitude says that the
> package nmh is installed. But there is no directory /usr/local/nmh/ on
> the computer. Sometime in the past the organization of Debian /usr
> transitioned from having that directory to not have it. It's been long
> enough that it may have gone thru several transitions while I was
> confused and inattentive (because of poor access to emails, perhaps)
>
> Anyway, I think I need a PATH statement that is appropriate for
> Debian wheezy before I can do any meaningful debugging.
>
> Can someone who is running a single user Wheezy system using single
> user .procmailrc and spamassassin (or spamc/spamd) please post a copy
> of the PATH statement is a working setup?
>
This is my PATH statement, which worked under Lenny and still works in
Squeeze. I haven't tried Wheezy. I'm using mbox for my mail format.
"mbox" is also my default message location.
Heck, I'll include most of my .procmailrc for you:
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
HOME=/home/rob
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/.procmaillog
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