i figured out a solution, in $HOME/.qmail-test1
i put:
|preline procmail -m /home/xs/.procmailrc
and it seems to work.
-xs
end
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|Greg Albrecht KF4MKT [EMAIL PROTECTED]|
|Safari Internet www.safari.net|
|Fort Lauderdale, FL 1-888-537-9550|
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On Mon, 10 May 1999, xs wrote:
>
>hey all, i recently tried going back to some procmail scripts i had before
>and am getting the follow error:
>
>May 10 14:33:36 rhino qmail: 926360703.993456 new msg 253997
>May 10 14:33:36 rhino qmail: 926360704.000787 info msg 253997: bytes 228
>from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 1299 uid 500
>May 10 14:33:36 rhino qmail: 926360704.008772 starting delivery 54: msg
>253997 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>May 10 14:33:36 rhino qmail: 926360704.008901 status: local 1/10 remote
>0/20
>May 10 14:33:36 rhino qmail: 926360704.206914 delivery 54: success:
>procmail:_Couldn't_create_"/var/spool/mail/xs"/did_0+0+1/
>May 10 14:33:36 rhino qmail: 926360704.207090 status: local 0/10 remote
>0/20
>May 10 14:33:36 rhino qmail: 926360704.207155 end msg 253997
>
>
>thats cuz there is no /var/spool/mail
>$MAIL is set to $HOME/Mailbox
>none the less, if i mkdir /var/spool/mail, and ln -s $HOME/Maildir
>/var/spool/mail/$USER, it says it's a bogus file and renames it.
>so i went back and set some vars in $HOME/.procmailrc:
>PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
>ORGMAIL=$HOME/Mailbox
>MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
>DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox #completely optional
>LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log
>
>:0 Wh: msgid.lock
>| formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
>
>:0:
>* ^From.*xs*
>/home/xs/xs666
>
>
>nothing much wrong there. heres $HOME/mail/procmail.log:
>>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon May 10 18:25:27 1999
> Folder: /home/xs/xs666
>348
>
>(14:29:12)(xs@rhino)(~/mail)$ echo $MAIL
>/home/xs/Mailbox
>
>(14:29:58)(xs@rhino)(~)$ cat ~/.qmail-test1
>|preline procmail
>
>? any ideas?
>
>
>end
>+-------------------------------------+
>|Greg Albrecht KF4MKT [EMAIL PROTECTED]|
>|Safari Internet www.safari.net|
>|Fort Lauderdale, FL 1-888-537-9550|
>+-------------------------------------+
>
>
