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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:44:45 +0800
From: Greg Matheson <lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw>
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Subject: Re: procmail not writing mbox file properly?
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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).

-- 
Greg Matheson, Taiwan

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