[Wylug-help] Fetchmail setup

A J Cole ajcole at ajcole.org
Thu Nov 25 17:17:46 UTC 2010


>At Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:03:20 +0000,
>Anne Wilson wrote:
>> The most likely explanation of that is a faulty recipe in procmail.  It has a 
>> tendency to create an mbox file there if it can't deliver.
>
>It's the same procmail recipe I've been using for ages. There might be
>a problem with it, but I suspect the blame lies elsewhere.

Could still be a miss-match in the rules - the headers will almost
certainly differ in some respects between fetchmail -> postfix -> procmail
and fetchmail -> procmail.  The README for procmail (if its a diferent
version) should loudly flag any processing changes.

Andrew



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