On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, chris (fool) mccraw wrote:
>
> > well, you could post your procmailrc here and tell us all that you know
> > about a message that disappears (sender, subject, and anything else that
> > might be affected by whatever filter rules you have in place in
> procmial).
>
> Chris,
>
>   Here's ~/.procmailrc:
>
> # set to yes when debugging
> VERBOSE=3
>
> # Remove ## when debugging; set to no if you want minimal logging; to all
> # for max.
> LOGABSTRACT=all
>
> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
>
> # Directory for storing procmail-related files
> PMDIR=$HOME/procmail
>
> #diagnostic:
> DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/rshepard
>
> # Put ## before LOGFILE if no logging is wanted (not recommended)
> LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
> ## INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/testing.rc
> ## INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/lists.rc
> INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/recipes.rc
>
> # Catch SPAM
> :0
> * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES
> * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*
> spam
> #EOF
>
>   And here's an example of a message from linkedin.com:
>
> procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/home/rshepard/procmail/recipes.rc"
> procmail: No match on "....@.*robinson-west.com"
> procmail: Match on "< 256000"
> procmail: Locking "spamassassin.lock"
> procmail: Executing "spamassassin
> procmail: Unlocking "spamassassin.lock"
> procmail: No match on "^^rom[ ]"
> procmail: No match on "^X-Spam-Status: Yes"
> procmail: No match on "^Subject: *****SPAM*****"
> procmail: No match on
> "(^((Original-)?(Resent-)?(To|Cc|Bcc)|(X-Envelope|Apparently(-Resent)?)-To):(.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?)
> [email protected]"
>
>   ... the above repeated for each recipe in ~/procmail/recipes.rc
>
> procmail: Locking "INBOX.lock"
> procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=INBOX"
> procmail: Opening "INBOX"
> procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
> procmail: Unlocking "INBOX.lock"
> procmail: Notified comsat: "rshep...@451980:/home/rshepard/mail/INBOX"
> >From 
> >[email protected]<mbr%[email protected]>
> > Tue Mar
> 24 17:27:33 2009
>  Subject: From Will Coetzer and other Mining & Metallurgy Industry Network
>   Folder: INBOX                                                6003
>
>   But, it never showed up in my INBOX (which is /var/spool/mail/rshepard
> and
> mirrored in ~/mail/INBOX).
>
> > i find it very hard to believe that your procmail log file hasn't told
> you
> > what's happening to those messages.  i often lost messages and always
> > found them via the log, when i used procmail for 12 years.  i've finally
> > given up that ghost and let gmail do all my sorting these days.
>
>    I've had no problems (of which I'm aware) the past dozen years until
> last
> month. Then a prospective client sent me a message that never arrived, and
> the resend never made it to my INBOX, either. Same thing happened late last
> week (different domain), and now the messages from linkedin.com are not
> arriving, either. Very frustrating.
>
> Rich
>
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Does anything show up in /var/log/maillog?

Since it's in mbox format you should be able to cat the mailbox and grep for
the message by sender/subject since you know what they are. Maybe it's an
MUA issue and not the MTA which is unlikely but possible.

Drew-
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