On 27, Oct, 2001 at 12:41:13PM -0600, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
> > Other pains are when people misconfigure procmail recipes
> > and then their mail starts bouncing too.
>
> Procmail can make mail bounce? I thought it would just send mail to the
> bit bucket if it was misconfigured...
It only does this if it's invoked by the MTA, if you pipe mail to it
from fetchmail it'll try hard not to waste mail, but if it has to ...
well, /dev/null.
> > Unfortunately when list traffic is high, this causes a hugh
> > burden on the list-admin(s) who has a real job not just looking
> > after the list ;)
And to avoid that you SHOULD make fetchmail deliver mail to procmail,
not reinject via SMTP.
And of course make a spotless ~/.procmail! :-)
Have a nice day
Morten
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