Procmail battles

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:

 > How do you receive your email, i.e. how does it end up going through 
 > procmail?

An excellent question ... and I'm not sure, which may be the crux of
the problem.  I was under the impression that sendmail, as it is
configured to use procmail, would process ~/.procmailrc when it
delivered mail to /var/spool/mail/pmr.  Now I'm thinking that that is
not necessarily the case.  Can you confirm?  Meanwhile I will see if
there is an option in sendmail.mc that causes procmail to ignore
~/.procmailrc ...

 > Check for sensible (e.g. not group or world writeable permissions on 
 > your home directory or .procmailrc).

Done.

 > Try adding:
 > 
 > LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log
 > LOGABSTRACT=yes
 > VERBOSE=1

Done.

 > to your ~/.procmailrc after the MAILDIR=/home/pmr/mail line.
 > 
 > Then look in /home/pmr/mail/procmail.log after a delivery attempt.

No joy.  


-pmr