procmail not writing mbox file properly?

procmail not writing mbox file properly?

[Matthew Rich]

I just moved to cygwin from debian linux and am having some problems setting up my email. I use mutt, fetchmail, and procmail. procmail writes most of my mail to ~/mbox, my main mbox file. However, I noticed that mutt was not picking up the messages written to ~/mbox by procmail.

I set up mutt to poll my pop3 server itself, and when it does this it writes to the mbox file properly. Also, I looked at my old mbox file from my linux machine and I figured out what's wrong: procmail on cygwin is not writing the leading From line for each message. Thus mutt is just ignoring the messages it writes. Note that procmail (the same version, 3.22) *was* writing this line on debian.

For example, the first few lines of each message in the mbox file should look like:

From sender@sender.com Tue Jul 01 09:15:07 2003
Return-path: <sender@sender.com>
Envelope-to: matthew@localhost
Delivery-date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 09:15:07 -0500

But with procmail on cygwin, I'm just getting:

Received: from bar.com [168.143.80.100]
    by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.4)
    for ci_matthew@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:49:53 -0500 (CST)
Received: from cujo.runbox.com (193.71.199.138)
    by mail01d.rapidsite.net (RS ver 1.0.86vs) with SMTP id 3-0850523058
    for <foo@bar.com>; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:50:59 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from [10.9.9.15] (helo=odie.runbox.com)
    by lufsen.runbox.com with esmtp (Exim 4.20)
    id 1A1sFY-0005RV-Lj
    for foo@bar.com; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:51:00 +0200
Received: from mail by odie.runbox.com with local (Exim 4.20)
    id 1A1sFF-00024v-LY
    for foo@bar.com; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:50:41 +0200
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

etc. Namely, it starts right in with the Received: headers, without ever writing the From line. If I just add in a dummy From line copied from another message in the mbox file, mutt can then read the message written by procmail.

Anyone know what's going on? 





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Re: procmail not writing mbox file properly?

[Greg Matheson]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Matthew Rich wrote:

> I set up mutt to poll my pop3 server itself, and when it does this it writes to the mbox file properly. Also, I looked at my old mbox file from my linux machine and I figured out what's wrong: procmail on cygwin is not writing the leading From line for each message. Thus mutt is just ignoring the messages it writes. Note that procmail (the same version, 3.22) *was* writing this line on debian.

From man procmail:

       -f fromwhom
            Causes  procmail  to  regenerate  the  leading  `From  ' line with
            fromwhom as the sender (instead of -f one could use the  alternate
            and  obsolete  -r).   If fromwhom consists merely of a single `-',
            then procmail will only update the timestamp on the `From  '  line
            (if present, if not, it will generate a new one).

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Re: procmail not writing mbox file properly?

[Jason Tishler]

Matthew,

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:48:12PM +0000, Matthew Rich wrote:
> Also, I looked at my old mbox file from my linux machine and I figured
> out what's wrong: procmail on cygwin is not writing the leading From
> line for each message.
> [snip]
> Anyone know what's going on? 

How are you invoking procmail in your .fetchmailrc?  Are you following
the recommended usage as documented in the Cygwin fetchmail README?

    mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"

FWIW, Cygwin fetchmail/procmail has properly processed well over 100K
emails since I cut over to this email processing solution in July 2001.

Jason

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