Re: testing procmail

2000-03-15 Thread Jason Helfman

After all of that, you didn't even post what the resolution was!@!!!

/jgh

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From: J McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 1:00 pm
Subject: Re: testing procmail

> Nevermind.  Figured it out.
> 
> jm
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Re: testing procmail

2000-03-15 Thread Lars Hecking


 Enable verbose logging in procmail. And remember that you need a
 local lockfile for file deliveries.

 This is really off-topic here.

 A searchable procmail mailing list archive is at
 http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/
 
J McKitrick writes:
> Well, i took your advice, and according to the test, this should work.
> I tried the most basic possible procmail filter:
> I'm trying to match subjects with 'test' in them.  But every time i
> send myself such a message, it disappears into oblivion.
> 
> The procmail rule sends it to 'chat', which is a mailbox 
> ~/mail/chat
> 
> But it never shows up in chat.  No thing returns from the mailing, no
> errors.  It just disappears.
> 
> jm
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Re: testing procmail

2000-03-15 Thread Eugene Lee

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 05:32:50PM +, J McKitrick wrote:

:I realize this is a mutt list, not a procmail list,
:but this is just a quick question not worth subscribing to another
:list for:
:
:Here's my test .procmailrc
:
:Problem is, nothing sent from me is ending up in chat.  it all goes to
:the default directory.

To your .procmailrc, add this line to enable extended diagnostics:

VERBOSE=on

Then send another test email, and check your LOGFILE to see what
Procmail is doing.  The recipe looks fine, so I'm guessing that Procmail
isn't even running.  In which case you need to fix your $HOME/.forward
file, if your local MTA (Sendmail, qmail, etc.) isn't configured to call
Procmail automatically.


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Eugene Lee
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Re: testing procmail

2000-03-15 Thread J McKitrick

I realize this is a mutt list, not a procmail list,
but this is just a quick question not worth subscribing to another
list for:

Here's my test .procmailrc

Problem is, nothing sent from me is ending up in chat.  it all goes to
the default directory.

In .muttrc, i have:

mailboxes
~/mail
~/mail/chat

jm
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MAILDIR=/usr/home/jcm/mail
LOGFILE=/usr/home/jcm/procmail.log

:0
* ^From:.*jcm
$MAILDIR/chat

# Fall back to the default mailbox.



Re: testing procmail

2000-03-15 Thread J McKitrick

Nevermind.  Figured it out.

jm
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Re: testing procmail

2000-03-15 Thread J McKitrick

Well, i took your advice, and according to the test, this should work.
I tried the most basic possible procmail filter:
I'm trying to match subjects with 'test' in them.  But every time i
send myself such a message, it disappears into oblivion.

The procmail rule sends it to 'chat', which is a mailbox 
~/mail/chat

But it never shows up in chat.  No thing returns from the mailing, no
errors.  It just disappears.

jm
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Jonathon McKitrick  /  [EMAIL PROTECTED] \
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Re: testing procmail

2000-03-15 Thread Robert Kim


There is an excellent procmail FAQ.  It shows you step-by-step method to test the 
procmail.  If it worked for me, it must be easy.  I was able to set up procmail in my 
personal mail account w/o any problem.

However, I'm having trouble w/ my work mail account.  For some reason I can not "|" or 
write to file from my .forward file which renders my procmail useless.  It says I 
don't have the right shell.  Oh well, I'll probably have to look somewhere else for 
the answer.


* J McKitrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [000315 08:49]:
> I'm trying to test procmail with mutt.  I'm new to mutt, and *very*
> new to procmail  I used a friend's procmailrc as a template, but i
> need to know if there s a way to test it without losing mail.
> 
> jm
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> Jonathon McKitrick  /  [EMAIL PROTECTED] \
> "I prefer the term Artificial Person myself."/
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Re: testing procmail

2000-03-15 Thread Jon Walthour

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:30:07AM -0500, J McKitrick wrote:
> I'm trying to test procmail with mutt.  I'm new to mutt, and *very*
> new to procmail  I used a friend's procmailrc as a template, but i
> need to know if there s a way to test it without losing mail.

Check out http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html. Specifically, look
at Tip #2: Building a test-bench. How can I test individual procmail
recipes?

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Thanks,

Jon Walthour, BSCD
Cincinnati, Ohio
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The 21st century begins on January 1, 2001



Re: testing procmail

2000-03-15 Thread Jason Helfman

I got started with this...and it helped out very much
http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/

/jgh

- Original Message -
From: Jag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 11:12 am
Subject: Re: testing procmail

> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, J McKitrick wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to test procmail with mutt.  I'm new to mutt, and *very*
> > new to procmail  I used a friend's procmailrc as a template, but i
> > need to know if there s a way to test it without losing mail.
> 
> Check out 'man procmailex'  It's nothing but example 
> .procmailrc's.  If
> you search for 'backup' in the man page it'll give you a recipe 
> you can
> put at the top of your .procmailrc to store all your mail in a backup
> file before it tries to process the message.  Be careful with that
> recipe though, I think it's setup for Maildir and not mbox format.
> 
> Jag
> 



Re: testing procmail

2000-03-15 Thread Jag

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, J McKitrick wrote:

> I'm trying to test procmail with mutt.  I'm new to mutt, and *very*
> new to procmail  I used a friend's procmailrc as a template, but i
> need to know if there s a way to test it without losing mail.

Check out 'man procmailex'  It's nothing but example .procmailrc's.  If
you search for 'backup' in the man page it'll give you a recipe you can
put at the top of your .procmailrc to store all your mail in a backup
file before it tries to process the message.  Be careful with that
recipe though, I think it's setup for Maildir and not mbox format.

Jag