On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:37:05AM -0600, Lorry wrote:
> This brings up another issue... I tried to configure procmail to
> send my mail into my folders.  I don't have folders based on which
> email, but I do have lots of folders for various topics and mailing
> lists and so on.  I wrote a recipe to test it out and had my friend
> send me an email that it should have affected.  Nothing happened.  I
> rebooted.  Nothing happened.  I put the recipe in a file called
> .procmailrc in my home dir.  Is this not what I'm supposed to do?
> Do I have to do something else to make it work?  I did RTFM and
> that's all it said to do....

########################################################################
# Gratuitous Tip(tm) that you should have read in the manpage for
# procmailrc(5) and procmailex(5) so that you can get us the log file.
# See also: procmail, formail, 'man -k procmail'

# Pretty standard mail directory location
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail

# Log everything
VERBOSE=yes
LOGFILE=procmail.log

# Copy everything to the backup folder
:0 c
backup

# Fancier backup.  Remove ~/.procmail_backupall to disable backups.
:0 c
* ? test -f $HOME/.procmail_backupall
backup

# insert custom recipe's here
# ...

# EOGT

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