On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 07:40:40AM -0500, John Bacalle wrote: > * John Bacalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010212 02:48]: > > The following from man procmail should save the last 200 messages I have > > received. But it just saves everything instead. My backup cache keeps > > growing and growing till I manually delete it. > > > > # Create a backup cache of 200 most recent messages in case of > > # mistakes (yes, you can change the 200 to 20 or 400 or whatever > > # you want) > > :0 c > > backup > > > > :0 ic > > | cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,200d`
Looks okee, so just some stupid ideas: Is backup a directory and does it really have files named msg.<whatever>? Try adding the following lines to the top of your p~/procmailrc: VERBOSE=yes #extended diagnostics on/off LOGABSTRACT=all #log each succesfull recipy and come back with all the errors it shows, if any. -- groetjes, carel
