The 03.02.28 at 08:07, Bruce Marshall wrote:
What you say may very well be true, but he should be able to get it to work with what he has in his procmailrc file. He's not delivering
to root.
Yes, he is.
If I read correctly - it is a long thread, and it is difficult to know exactly what and how he is using it - he was using fetchmail as root, and the procmail file was /etc/fetchmailrc. When using postfix (as shipped) with procmail, the "/etc/fetchmailrc" file is simply ignored, as is "/root/.procmailrc".
If he is using fetchmail as a normal user, the the rules should be in "/home/user/.procmailrc"
If he is bypassing postfix somehow, then this does not apply, of course - but I saw a mention of postfix in the posted logs.
I run fetchmail, procmail, (and used to run postfix) the same way he is trying to run it and it has worked for several years.
Me too; but before I was using sendmail, and when I changed to postfix with suse 8.1, procmail went nuts and root stopped receiving mail.
It is documented...
My guess, anyway, is that his postfix is missconfigured somewhere. The error log he gets is way strange.
Have it your way..... but I don't agree with a lot of what you say above.... such as "the procmail file was /etc/fetchmailrc. When using postfix (as shipped)
with procmail, the "/etc/fetchmailrc" file is simply ignored, as is "/root/.procmailrc".
Fetchmail and procmail are two different animals but you seem to make them as one above. There is no way a /etc/fetchmailrc file can be ignored by fetchmail if you tell it that's the file to use. I've run both sendmail and postfix along with fetchmail and procmail and it works as I explained... for me at least. In any event, this thread is now too convoluted to follow.
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