Re: procmail oddness

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Kurtis Schlimme said:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> > Set your mda to "/usr/bin/procmail -f -" and run fetchmail as your
> > regular user ID.  That's what I do.  It works flawlessly.
> 
>   OK, i copied that line exactly to my .fetchmailrc and it had some, erm,
> interesting results.  Procmail and sendmail decided to run over and over
> and over again to deliver (try to anyway) my mail.  argh.  I found that
> its a very quikc way to get your pid's to go up and up and up.  I was at
> around 1000 and now just after this happened, I'm at 3185  heh.  I reread
> the procmail man page and it mentions the '-f-' flag which doesnt have a
> space between the f and the trailing - and maybe this is making procmail,
> erm, upset?  8)

Uh, no, that shouldn't be the problem.  The first line of my
.fetchmailrc looks something like this:

    poll mailserver proto pop3 pass xxxx mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f -"

Perhaps I didn't make it clear that the quotes had to stay?  In any
case, mail delivery is flawless for me.

> Or do I need to make a .procmailrc file again as the one
> I had before seems a bit too much for my use?  Thanks 8)

Try it with no .procmailrc, just to make sure that wasn't your
problem.  (I didn't look at it closely, so I can't say for sure...)

Steve
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