[PLUG] When procmail is led astray

[Charlie Schluting]

On 4/23/07 1:32 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> In a moment of rash action I ftped my .procmailrc to my work Windows computer,
> used Wordpad to edit it and then transferred it back.  oooopppps.  DOS line
> endings.
> 
> So what would/did procmail do with mail when the .procmailrc was unreadable?  Bit
> bucket or some default safe place.  (har!)
> 
> Note, this is not a case of bad rules misdirecting procmail.  The .procmailrc was
> effectively one big comment, or something fbarred.
> 

It may exit with a temp_fail. It may deliver to a strange mailbox (not
likely). Mail logs should say - and you may want to enable logging in
your .procmailrc too.

Just vi the file and delete all the ^M's :)

 -Charlie