Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Mail server is postfix
~/.procmailrc is read every time procmail is called to process an email. You still have to ensure procmail is called for delivering emails locally. This used to be always configured as such on Linux systems a few years ago, but these days you have to select it when configuring your local MTA (postfix, sendmail, forget the rest). You configure your MTA you use your distros system configuration tool.
distro is clarkconnect
It also depends on how you get your email. If you use fetchmail, its default config is to download the email and shove it at the mail transfer agent listening on localhost:25 to have the email delivered. You can also configure fetchmail to pipe downloaded emails straight into procmail. man fetchmail
maildrop is picking up mail from pop accounts
If you use your fancy graphical mail client to download your email (bad idea) you're probably stuffed, as they tend to suffer from the widespread disease of "there's nothing but me in the universe, therefore I'll do all your filtering, never mind how crappy I am". Read the docs of your mail client to work out how to get it to deliver through procmail.
Everything is coming in to server. I was using the client but I'm not now that I've set up my desktop with linux as well.
I'm not sure how to work out if I'm doing the right thing to get mail to go thur procmail...
I did what nick said and there's nothing happening in the file I'm tailing.
