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Date:      Sat, 22 Feb 2003 04:25:32 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: procmail question a little off topic
Message-ID:  <20030222022532.GB42330@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20030221174624.S55344@wonkity.com>
References:  <20030221142404.A5503@asu.edu> <20030221174624.S55344@wonkity.com>

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On 2003-02-21 17:48, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, David Bear wrote:
> > ======== .procmailrc ==========
> > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:$HOME/bin
> > MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
> > DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox
> > #
> > # catch systems for syslog entries
> > # ppsrv3, PAC SMB server
> > :0:
> > * ^From.*@ppsrv3.pp.asu.edu
> > syslogs/ppsrv3
>
>   ^^^ Shouldn't this be an absolute path?  Don't count on procmail
> running in the same directory you think it is.  (Maybe just a problem,
> and not *the* problem.)

It's ok.  If you don't use an absolute path, procmail appends the
mailbox path of the rule to "${MAILDIR}/", which is already set to a
correct value in an earlier line ;-)


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