If you have postfix, procmail, getmail (or whatever) logging at a reasonable level of verbosity, you will see the disposition of all messages, bounces and so forth, in your logs, eg, /var/log/mail.log, ~/Procmail/log, ~/.getmail/getmail.log.
On 12/31/01, I received this from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:05:28 +0800 > From: Charles Jie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Please help verify my procmail settings to go with mutt > > Hi, > I'm trying to substitute Mutt with Mozilla. > One important porting work is dealing with the multiple accounts I keep, > especially the mailing list. > * But I found the flow of incoming mail dropping down. vim mailing list > sent me a message telling me my mail is bouncing. > On 12/28 and 29, I received about 20 mails from mutt-users. But 12/30 I > had no more than 5. It also happened to [EMAIL PROTECTED], dropping from > 20-30 down to 4. (But my testing mail all survived.) > (My MTA is postfix (on Mandrake 8.1). Mutt is 1.3.24i. procmail 3.21.) > I wonder whether the following files (copied from 'man procmail') have > anything wrong. Help, please. > * My ~/.forward: > "|IFS=' '&&p=/usr/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -Yf-||exit 75 #jie" > (Could anybody help explain: > 1. Why IFS=' ' checking? > 2. Why the options -Yf- in "exec $p -Yf-"? > 3. Why exit 75? > ) > * My ~/.procmailrc: > MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists > #DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox #completely optional > LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/proc.log #recommended > :0: > * ^(To|CC|From): .*mutt-users > mbox.mutt > :0: > * ^(To|CC|From): .*[EMAIL PROTECTED] > mbox.vim > :0: > * ^Subject: .*Fwd?: > mbox.fw > :0 > * ^Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mbox.spam > If I can not handle multiple accounts well with mutt, I may need to go > back to Mozilla or Netscape, which are so heavy. > Thank you in advance, > charlie > - -- > Charles Jie (¬ö¬K¿³) Keya Technologies (¶}¶®¬ì§Þ) > (O) +886 2 2936 0813 (Mobile) 0920 397 746 -- Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
