[CentOS] Procmail/Formail problem on 6.3

Fred Smith
Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:53:05 -0000

Hi!

In the process of making mysystem work again, having just done a
reinstall of 6.3 x86_64.

I have a considerable collection of procmail recipes for filtering
mail in various ways, and since the upgrade none of 'em is working.

procmail passes every mail thru spambayes, which gives back a rating
on spamminess. this happens, so it's not as if procmail is simply
punting.

that is followed by tests for which mailbox it should go into, depending
on the mailing list, or otherwise who it's from.

these ARE NOT working.

these recipes all use formail to append a header identifying the mail
folder Procmail decided to use, and then the mail is appended to
the mailbox.

This has been working without problem for YEARS.

but now, it all ends up in my main mailbox, where only those things
that fail all the filters are supposed to go. aparently all the filters
are failing.

each filter is akin to this one:

:0:
* ^X-BeenThere: centos at centos.org
| $FORMAIL -A"X-procmail: Centos-users" >>$HOME/Mail/centos


which checks to see if it came from the centos mailing list, and if
so should append a X"-Procmail: Centos-users" header then append the
mail to $HOME/Mail/centos. Only it doesn't append the header, and it
doesn't drop the mail in the centos mailbox.

anyone out there got a clue?

thanks!

Fred
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