Re: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
Thanks for the feedback. Here's the results: After the cp -p /var/mail/sean /tmp/sean and mutt -f /tmp/sean: /tmp/sean is not a mailbox. bash-2.05$ ls -lFda /var/mail `which mutt` `which mutt_dotlock` -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 427564 Sep 13 22:25 /usr/local/bin/mutt* -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 7364 Sep 13 22:25 /usr/local/bin/mutt_dotlock* drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Nov 13 23:22 /var/mail/ bash-2.05$ mutt -v Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28) Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE [using slang 10404] Compile options: -DOMAIN -DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK -USE_FCNTL +USE_FLOCK +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL +USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS +COMPRESSED SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail MAILPATH=/var/mail SHAREDIR=/usr/local/share/mutt SYSCONFDIR=/usr/local/etc ISPELL=/usr/local/bin/ispell To contact the developers, please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. To report a bug, please use the muttbug utility. On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, David T-G wrote: Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:23:03 -0500 To: Mutt Users' List [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox? Sean -- ...and then Sean LeBlanc said... % I can't get mutt to work. For some reason, % it's saying /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox? It probably is, but mutt probably can't read or lock it. Try cp -p /var/mail/sean /tmp/sean mutt -f /tmp/sean and see what you get. If it works, then you have a locking problem. % % I don't get it, since I can cat this file, % and it has what looks like normal mail in % it. Please run ls -lFda /var/mail `which mutt` `which mutt_dotlock` mutt -v and post the results. I bet that mutt and/or mutt_dotlock have not been installed with SGID permissions and that /var/mail is writable only by root and the mail group. % % This is on FreeBSD 4.4, if it makes any % difference. This happens everywhere :-) % % -- % + % -Sean LeBlanc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] % Stop corporate welfare. Repeal the H1-B program now: % http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/ :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! -- - Sean LeBlanc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop corporate welfare. Repeal the H1-B program now: http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/ Auctioning many Linux, Java, NT, SilverStream books: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItemsuserid=tparkin IM me: Yahoo: seanleblancathome ICQ: 138565743 MSN: seanleblancathome AIM: sleblancathome
Re: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
Sean -- ...and then Sean LeBlanc said... % Thanks for the feedback. Here's the results: Sure thing! % % After the cp -p /var/mail/sean /tmp/sean % and mutt -f /tmp/sean: % /tmp/sean is not a mailbox. Hokay. Now we see something unexpected. Please now run echo ### ; head -3 /var/mail/sean ; echo ### and paste in the results. I suspect that the first five characters of the file will not be From and a space. % % % bash-2.05$ ls -lFda /var/mail `which mutt` `which mutt_dotlock` % -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 427564 Sep 13 22:25 /usr/local/bin/mutt* That's good. % -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 7364 Sep 13 22:25 /usr/local/bin/mutt_dotlock* That's great. % drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Nov 13 23:22 /var/mail/ That's expected. All looks good there. % % % bash-2.05$ mutt -v % Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28) This is a bit old, but it should still work. :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg20433/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
Sean -- ...and then Sean LeBlanc said... % bash-2.05$ echo ### ; head -3 /var/mail/sean ; echo ### % ### % Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % Received: from mail.lakwod3.co.home.com [24.254.60.13] % by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.8.17) % ### % % Good detective work. What do you suggest? That might explain Thanks :-) You need to recreate a From_ line (or, I suppose, just delete that email and make the next item's From_ line be first). If you use mutt_dotlock to lock the file, then you can [probably :-] safely edit the file, find the next From_ line, and yank it up to paste it at the head. That should get you going. % why it worked at FIRST, then got hosed later. But how it got % hosed is what I don't understand. I'm trying to get fetchmail+ % procmail+Mutt to work, and I was playing around with filters AFAIK fetchmail will very happpily write mbox files. Furthermore, ... % and then, suddenly, Mutt started giving me that message...I % still didn't have procmail even close to working, I think. % I wonder if something in there hosed it up. My procmail % config currently has this in it: % % MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/ ... % % :0 % * * % Inbox ... it looks like you're not even dropping into /var/mail/sean but into your ~/Mail dir Inbox file. BTW, you can declare DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Inbox above your rules and then skip this last rule, too. :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg20436/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:43:00PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/ :0 * ^Subject*\[lug\]* blug :0 * ^Subject*\[corrado-l\]* corrado :0 * * Inbox You _really_ need to change each of the :0 lines to :0: so that procmail will lock the mailboxes. This could be how the mailbox got corrupted in the first place. -Daniel -- Daniel E. Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. --Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
Daniel Sean -- ...and then Daniel Eisenbud said... % On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:43:00PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/ % :0 % * ^Subject*\[lug\]* % blug ... % % You _really_ need to change each of the :0 lines to :0: so that % procmail will lock the mailboxes. This could be how the mailbox got % corrupted in the first place. Oh, right. I had noticed that the first time but forgot to mention it; thanks for chiming in! % % -Daniel % % -- % Daniel E. Eisenbud % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % % We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of % undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed % hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. % --Henry David Thoreau, Walking :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg20438/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Daniel Eisenbud wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:42:52 -0500 To: Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Daniel Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mutt Users' List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox? On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:43:00PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/ :0 * ^Subject*\[lug\]* blug :0 * ^Subject*\[corrado-l\]* corrado :0 * * Inbox You _really_ need to change each of the :0 lines to :0: so that procmail will lock the mailboxes. This could be how the mailbox got corrupted in the first place. Done. Thanks for the tip. I'm still hosing my mailbox, though, at least when procmail is in the mix. I cleared out what was in there, added the extra colon to :0, and then ran fetchmail. 2 messages were downloaded, when I ran mutt, I got the message that the file was not a mailbox. So I cleared the mail file again, sent another test message from hotmail, removed this line from the .fetchmailrc: mda procmail, and then ran again. This time the mailbox was okay. So I guess somehow I'm running procmail incorrectly, or else it's misconfigured in the .procmailrc. At least I have an idea what was hosing it before, but I don't know how to get filtering working. -Daniel -- Daniel E. Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. --Henry David Thoreau, Walking -- - Sean LeBlanc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop corporate welfare. Repeal the H1-B program now: http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/ Auctioning many Linux, Java, NT, SilverStream books: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItemsuserid=tparkin IM me: Yahoo: seanleblancathome ICQ: 138565743 MSN: seanleblancathome AIM: sleblancathome
Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
What version of procmail do you have (what's the output when you run procmail -v)? What flags is fetchmail calling procmail with? Does fetchmail inject the message via SMTP into your machine's MTA when procmail is off? If so, do you have better results running procmail from your .forward? -Daniel On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:28:42PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Daniel Eisenbud wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:42:52 -0500 To: Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Daniel Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mutt Users' List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox? On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:43:00PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/ :0 * ^Subject*\[lug\]* blug :0 * ^Subject*\[corrado-l\]* corrado :0 * * Inbox You _really_ need to change each of the :0 lines to :0: so that procmail will lock the mailboxes. This could be how the mailbox got corrupted in the first place. Done. Thanks for the tip. I'm still hosing my mailbox, though, at least when procmail is in the mix. I cleared out what was in there, added the extra colon to :0, and then ran fetchmail. 2 messages were downloaded, when I ran mutt, I got the message that the file was not a mailbox. So I cleared the mail file again, sent another test message from hotmail, removed this line from the .fetchmailrc: mda procmail, and then ran again. This time the mailbox was okay. So I guess somehow I'm running procmail incorrectly, or else it's misconfigured in the .procmailrc. At least I have an idea what was hosing it before, but I don't know how to get filtering working. -Daniel -- Daniel E. Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. --Henry David Thoreau, Walking -- - Sean LeBlanc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop corporate welfare. Repeal the H1-B program now: http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/ Auctioning many Linux, Java, NT, SilverStream books: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItemsuserid=tparkin IM me: Yahoo: seanleblancathome ICQ: 138565743 MSN: seanleblancathome AIM: sleblancathome -- Daniel E. Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. --Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Re: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:28:42PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc wrote: So I cleared the mail file again, sent another test message from hotmail, removed this line from the .fetchmailrc: mda procmail, and then ran again. This time the mailbox was okay. So I guess somehow I'm running procmail incorrectly, or else it's misconfigured in the .procmailrc. not sure if this is related, but here's how I have procmail in my fetchmailrc: mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d %T' :) -- Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED] msg20442/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
Sean -- ...and then Sean LeBlanc said... % % On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Daniel Eisenbud wrote: % % On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:43:00PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc % [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/ % :0 ... % % You _really_ need to change each of the :0 lines to :0: so that ... % % Done. Thanks for the tip. % I'm still hosing my mailbox, though, at least when procmail is in the % mix. I cleared out what was in % there, added the extra colon to :0, and then ran fetchmail. % 2 messages were downloaded, when I ran mutt, I got the message % that the file was not a mailbox. How interesting. Is Inbox a symlink to /var/mail/sean? I don't see how your procmail rules as shown would put anything in there in the first place. % % So I cleared the mail file again, % sent another test message from hotmail, removed this line from % the .fetchmailrc: mda procmail, and then ran again. This time % the mailbox was okay. So I guess somehow I'm running procmail % incorrectly, or else it's misconfigured in the .procmailrc. Hokay. Could you put up a pointer to your procmailrc file for review? % % At least I have an idea what was hosing it before, but I don't % know how to get filtering working. It should all work fine. I'm interested in how this works out. % % -- % - % Sean LeBlanc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... % That's a lotta blank lines at the end of your signature, pal :-) :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg20443/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Daniel Eisenbud wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:29:35 -0500 To: Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Daniel Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mutt Users' List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox? What version of procmail do you have (what's the output when you run procmail -v)? What flags is fetchmail calling procmail with? Does fetchmail inject the message via SMTP into your machine's MTA when procmail is off? If so, do you have better results running procmail from your .forward? bash-2.05$ procmail -v procmail v3.21 2001/06/29 Copyright (c) 1990-1999, Stephen R. van den Berg[EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Philip A. Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] Submit questions/answers to the procmail-related mailinglist by sending to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And of course, subscription and information requests for this list to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Locking strategies: dotlocking, lockf() Default rcfile: $HOME/.procmailrc Your system mailbox:/var/mail/sean As for the other questions: The only line dealing with procmail in the .fetchmailrc was this: mda procmail The whole .fetchmailrc looked like this: poll myserver protocol POP3 username myusername password mypassword mda procmail Now, it's the same as above, just no mda procmail in there. As for injecting SMTP into my machines MTA, I dunno. Without procmail, the data ended up in /var/mail/sean, and not hosed. I don't know if it went via sendmail or some other MTA (I never set up sendmail, either, btw). I don't know how to set up procmail via .forward, I haven't looked into that yet. I saw references to it was I was reading other docs, but didn't know .forward could be used that way. -Daniel On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:28:42PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Daniel Eisenbud wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:42:52 -0500 To: Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Daniel Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mutt Users' List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox? On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 01:43:00PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail/ :0 * ^Subject*\[lug\]* blug :0 * ^Subject*\[corrado-l\]* corrado :0 * * Inbox You _really_ need to change each of the :0 lines to :0: so that procmail will lock the mailboxes. This could be how the mailbox got corrupted in the first place. Done. Thanks for the tip. I'm still hosing my mailbox, though, at least when procmail is in the mix. I cleared out what was in there, added the extra colon to :0, and then ran fetchmail. 2 messages were downloaded, when I ran mutt, I got the message that the file was not a mailbox. So I cleared the mail file again, sent another test message from hotmail, removed this line from the .fetchmailrc: mda procmail, and then ran again. This time the mailbox was okay. So I guess somehow I'm running procmail incorrectly, or else it's misconfigured in the .procmailrc. At least I have an idea what was hosing it before, but I don't know how to get filtering working. -Daniel -- Daniel E. Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. --Henry David Thoreau, Walking -- - Sean LeBlanc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop corporate welfare. Repeal the H1-B program now: http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/ Auctioning many Linux, Java, NT, SilverStream books: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItemsuserid=tparkin IM me: Yahoo: seanleblancathome ICQ: 138565743 MSN: seanleblancathome AIM: sleblancathome -- Daniel E. Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. --Henry David Thoreau, Walking -- - Sean LeBlanc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop corporate welfare. Repeal the H1-B program now: http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/ Auctioning many Linux, Java, NT, SilverStream books: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItemsuserid=tparkin IM me: Yahoo: seanleblancathome ICQ: 138565743 MSN: seanleblancathome AIM: sleblancathome
Re: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
* Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As for injecting SMTP into my machines MTA, I dunno. Without procmail, the data ended up in /var/mail/sean, and not hosed. I don't know if it went via sendmail or some other MTA (I never set up sendmail, either, btw). I doubt it was sendmail. That exerpt you posted earlier started with a Return-Path: header, which is indicative of a Maildir-style delivery. sendmail doesn't do those by default. If you follow the advice of adding the mda line in fetchmail, you should be all right. That will shoot your messages straight to procmail, which you could then debug further. Not knowing what's delivering your messages is making life difficult. -- Drew
Re: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
Drew Raines wrote: * Sean LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As for injecting SMTP into my machines MTA, I dunno. Without procmail, the data ended up in /var/mail/sean, and not hosed. I don't know if it went via sendmail or some other MTA (I never set up sendmail, either, btw). I doubt it was sendmail. That exerpt you posted earlier started with a Return-Path: header, which is indicative of a Maildir-style delivery. sendmail doesn't do those by default. well the procmail recpies don't have a trailing slash on the folder name which indicates mbox delivery. also with Maildir he wouldn't have needed to add the lockfile. i think postfix (and maybe qmail as well) adds this header regardless of type of delivery. -w -- GPG Public Key: http://infinitejazz.net/will/pgp/
Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Dan Boger wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:30:16 -0500 To: Mutt Users' List [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox? On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:28:42PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc wrote: So I cleared the mail file again, sent another test message from hotmail, removed this line from the .fetchmailrc: mda procmail, and then ran again. This time the mailbox was okay. So I guess somehow I'm running procmail incorrectly, or else it's misconfigured in the .procmailrc. not sure if this is related, but here's how I have procmail in my fetchmailrc: mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d %T' :) Thanks, everybody, for all the help!!! I finally got the darned thing working...I put the mda bit Dan suggested above, fiddled with my filters a bit to get things going (not quite regex, apparently) with some tests, and it appears to be working correctly. I may be back eventually, with some customization questions, esp stuff like better editor than vi, colors, etc... probably will do some RTFM'ing first, tho to avoid silly questions. Thanks again. I needed a faster email client I could use remotely. Stuff like Spruce and Sylpheed work with X forwarding, but sometimes that can be painfully slow, esp. when you are worried about the boss coming up behind you at work...the X clients also (all the ones I tried, anyway) seem to core dump quite frequently, and at the worst times. Cheers, - Sean LeBlanc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop corporate welfare. Repeal the H1-B program now: http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/ Auctioning many Linux, Java, NT, SilverStream books: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItemsuserid=tparkin IM me: Yahoo: seanleblancathome ICQ: 138565743 MSN: seanleblancathome AIM: sleblancathome
Re: Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:47:20PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc (dis)graced my inbox with: The whole .fetchmailrc looked like this: poll myserver protocol POP3 username myusername password mypassword mda procmail Not sure if this will help you, but my .fetchmailrc looks like this: # Configuration created Sat Oct 13 15:37:39 2001 by fetchmailconf set postmaster postmaster set bouncemail set no spambounce set properties set daemon 20 poll myserver with proto POP3 user myusername there with password mypassword is feztaa here warnings 3600 antispam 571 550 501 554 Perhaps you should run fetchmailconf ;) Oh, and I should say - I'm running postfix on my machine. Fetchmail just takes the mail from my ISP and sends it directly to postfix on the same machine. -- Rob 'Feztaa' Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. -- Dolly Parton
Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 04:30:16PM -0500, Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:28:42PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc wrote: So I cleared the mail file again, sent another test message from hotmail, removed this line from the .fetchmailrc: mda procmail, and then ran again. This time the mailbox was okay. So I guess somehow I'm running procmail incorrectly, or else it's misconfigured in the .procmailrc. not sure if this is related, but here's how I have procmail in my fetchmailrc: mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d %T' Sean, you should try using these flags to procmail (but make sure the path is correct for your local system.) My brief perusal of the documentation made it sound like this might convince procmail that it needs to add the From line. -Daniel -- Daniel E. Eisenbud [EMAIL PROTECTED] We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return,--prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. --Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 03:50:43PM -0700, Sean LeBlanc wrote: I may be back eventually, with some customization questions, esp stuff like better editor than vi ... http://www.vim.org It was practically *made* for mutt. Sorry, had to chime in. :) /db
Re: /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox?
Sean -- ...and then Sean LeBlanc said... % I can't get mutt to work. For some reason, % it's saying /var/mail/sean is not a mailbox? It probably is, but mutt probably can't read or lock it. Try cp -p /var/mail/sean /tmp/sean mutt -f /tmp/sean and see what you get. If it works, then you have a locking problem. % % I don't get it, since I can cat this file, % and it has what looks like normal mail in % it. Please run ls -lFda /var/mail `which mutt` `which mutt_dotlock` mutt -v and post the results. I bet that mutt and/or mutt_dotlock have not been installed with SGID permissions and that /var/mail is writable only by root and the mail group. % % This is on FreeBSD 4.4, if it makes any % difference. This happens everywhere :-) % % -- % + % -Sean LeBlanc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] % Stop corporate welfare. Repeal the H1-B program now: % http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/ :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! msg20415/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
