On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 23 December 2010 16:53:22 Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> LASTFOLDER is informational, procmail sets it immediately before
>> delivering to that folder; if you see LASTFOLDER in your logs, the
>> only way the message should fail to arrive in that folder is in the
>> event of an error writing to that folder.
>>
> They do arrive there - it just defines it as /var/mail/anne, which is useless
> on my IMAP server.
Sure, but the point is that assigning to LASTFOLDER yourself is meaningless.
Procmail will fall back on the folder named in $ORGMAIL in the event
that it is unable to deliver to $DEFAULT, for example because of a
locking issue. It's quite likely that this assignment to LASTFOLDER
is coming from ORGMAIL.
> In fact I misquoted when I first wrote. The line I gave is correct, but it
> should have been followed by
> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/new/
I'm pretty sure that's wrong. From the procmailrc manual:
If the mailbox name ends in "/", then this directory
is presumed to be a maildir folder; i.e., procmail will deliver the
message to a file in a subdirectory named "tmp" and rename it to be
inside a subdirectory named "new".
So you should not have the "new/" on the end of the DEFAULT value
unless you want a folder that is *named* "new" (and thus file paths
ending in new/new/ and new/cur/ etc.)
> In fact my logs show no mail going to /var/mail/anne today, so I will have to
> watch and wait. I repeat, I'm using a procmailrc that has worked perfectly
> for years.
Unfortunately that it "worked" doesn't always mean that it is correct,
it just means you haven't hit the corner cases before.
>> If you haven't already, you really should add
>>
>> LOGABSTRACT=all
>> VERBOSE=yes
>>
> When I first set this up it was with a printed set of documentation. I do
> have VERBOSE=YES, but I have LOGABSTRACT=YES. Are these equivalents or has
> something changed in the meantime?
Again from the manual pages:
LOGABSTRACT Just before procmail exits it logs an abstract of the
delivered message in $LOGFILE showing the `From ' and
`Subject:' fields of the header, what folder it
finally went to
and how long (in bytes) the message was. By setting this
variable to `no', generation of this abstract is sup-
pressed. If you set it to `all', procmail will log an
abstract for every successful delivering recipe it pro-
cesses.
So "all" includes some cases that "yes" does not, particularly copies
made with the "c" flag on recipes.
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