On Sun, 24 May 2009, Joe Pruett wrote:

> so are you saying that even though you have procmail logs showing it was
> delivered, you don't see the email?  if you look at your procmail log, do
> you see delivery that isn't preceded by the locking of rshepard.lock?

Joe,

   The procmail log shows the strace output being delivered to
/var/spool/mail/rshepard (which is was), but not the summary report. Yet it
was the strace output that suggested (I'm being cautious here) that the
summary report was mailed to me.

> also, what email client do you run?

   Alpine-2.00.

> Any chance it is filtering things for you?

   No. I have a non-default role, but that's for sending and replying to
messages from my personal domain.

   I'm wondering if I should figure out how to install and configure maildrop
rather than procmail. This is the first time in a dozen years that procmail
has behaved this way, at least that I've been aware of dropped messages.
Also, it's been a decade or so since I installed postfix and pflogsumm and
that's worked daily until recently, too.

   The reason I think that this is a procmail issue is when I direct _all_
incoming messages addressed to my business domain to the personal domain
mail file, they all appear. Example: last week customer service at United
Airlines tried sending me a receipt copy to both my business and personal
domains. /var/log/maillog showed both arriving and passed on to procmail,
but neither appeared in the default or personal mail file. When I modified
the procmail recipe file to direct mail from the business domain to the
personal domain file, the third time that message was sent it was delivered.

   In this instance cron was not involved and neither was 1pflogsumm. All
three messages showed up in /var/log/maillog as properly received and passed
to procmail. Only the last one, specifically redirecting mail addressed to
me at my business domain to the personal domain file, was delivered.

   Unfortunately, there is no longer a procmail-specific mail list nor anyone
I've found who knows it well enough to provide insight into the problem.

Rich


Rich
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