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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 1998 14:59:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
Cc:        Questions=answers <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: procmail killing my mail?!!?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161458260.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980715160718.29866A-100000@outpost.nada.org>

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On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Spidey wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I got a weird thing here... I can't get procmail to work... I'm trying to
> filter mail from the mailing list in a different folder, but now I haven't
> received ANY mail from freebsd-questions since yesterday, which is
> *highly* irregular....

Someone broke the mailing lists.  

> I then looked at my ~/.promail/log file... and I saw it... all the mail I
> received... but only the subject lines appeared in the logs, and then I
> knew my mail have been lost:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>[log excerpt]
> >From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Jul 15 14:06:37 1998
>  Subject: Re: Doskey?
>   Folder: freebsd.IN
> 2615
> procmail: Notified comsat: "beaupran@216327:/home/spidey/mail/freebsd.IN"
> procmail: Assigning "INCLUDERC=/home/spidey/.procmail/rc.maillists"
> procmail: Match on "^Sender.*owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG.*"
> procmail: Locking "freebsd.IN.lock"
> procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=freebsd.IN"
> procmail: Opening "freebsd.IN"
> procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
> procmail: Unlocking "freebsd.IN.lock"
> >>>>>>>>there is a *lot* of mail that passed like this...
> 
> What can I do? except than busting my .forward file....

Well, all the mail is being stored in the folder freebsd.IN, so if  you
open that, you'll have all your mail.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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