Hi folks,

Perhaps this is of help to someone:
I was futzing with procmail to sort the incoming mail, redirect something and
so on. But even when a few weeks back this appeared to work, it did not
anymore (changed a few things in .procmailrc and thought that was the wrong
thing).

Less is true!
1. I changed providers. The old one let me pull mail through
SMTP/postfix/mailkicks, the new one does not.
2. I do not use fetchmail but getmail. And getmail puts files directly in the
mbox where you tell it. Mail does not run through postfix, so not through
procmail. Duh...

What I do now (which works):
Use getmail to put mail in $HOME/mail/paul
Run formail to disect incoming mail and push it through procmail:

formail < $HOME/mail/paul -s procmail -m $HOME/.procmailrc

Which works fine. Then, as a safety catch, I make backup copies of the last 2
pulled mail-loads.
That's all. It took me a while before I noticed that I had to use formail.
Told you I was dumb ;)
Paul

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