On Mon, 11 May 1998, Matt Warnock wrote:
> Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:22:01 -0700 (PDT)
>
> I have been running procmail to archive mailing list stuff and sort
> mailing list stuff from *real* mail. But I have not figured out how to
> leave the regular mail alone. I presently have a default case that puts
> all regular mail in a file, and I can set up pine to read that file as the
> default inbox. But I'd rather have procmail just deposit the mail (by
> default) back into /var/spool/mail/matt (my system box) where I can read
> it with any mail tool without customization. However, I fear this will
> confuse procmail and send it in an infinite loop. The docs didn't address
> this as far as I could see. Anyone know if this is safe, or how it can be
> done?
>
>
procmail.man:
According to the processing
recipes in this file, the mail message that just arrived
gets distributed into the right folder (and more). If no
rcfile is found, or processing of the rcfile falls off the
end, procmail will store the mail in the default system
mailbox.
I've done this before, and had no problems with it.
I was running procmail from .forward, so I don't think the mail hits
the system box yet.
--
Scott
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