On 2012/08/23 01:04, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On 22/08/12 22:40, jdow wrote:
On 2012/08/22 11:08, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On 22/08/12 18:17, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:33:09PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
... procmail appears to be not doing its stuff
What could be wrong?
Why just had a spike of cartalk style questions "my car does
not start, what could be wrong?"
(my procmail, my wifi, whatever).
What could be wrong?
Instead of facile retorts, why not ask a question if you think
particular information may help? In fact someone with more sense
has helped me off-list, if only to confirm that my install is
broken beyond what would be a sensible repair.
Just as a matter of interest, when I ask a question with only
outline information, as this was, it's because I need a pointer
as to which particular bit of the problem is most likely to need
investigation, in order to avoid swamping the list with
irrelevancies. You spectacularly failed to give this.
Anne, I know you are not a newby. But your question was sort of
vague and seemed to betray a failure to perform some basic
troubleshooting 101 steps, "man procmail" is one. (There IS a lot
to read there in the various files. But learning the basics of how
procmail works is going to be step one for a lasting good solution.
This is hard for ancient bitches like me but I persevere. Having
learned is a nice feeling. The distressing part is how fast it all
dribbles away these days.)
{o.o}
That I can empathise with. However, procmail has worked for me for
several years until this problem, so I was pretty sure that it was not
the obvious problem of broken procmailrc. As I said, I wanted a
pointer to other things that could affect the working.
Browsing through logs (something that I simply hadn't had time for in
the last few weeks due to family problems) I found that an update had
broken some perl packages, and I couldn't get those mended. The
problem almost certainly started when I followed web-page advice about
fixing priorities on the repos. The more I dig, the more I find that
it has messed up such a large part of the installation that it is
simply not feasible to try to fix it. A new install would be much
quicker.
Look to what procmail calls, like SpamAssassin. THAT might be where the
breakage exists.
{^_^}
