Topic: Procmail not consistently routing mail into folders

[ddougan]

On my 7.2 server, I have Stephen Noble's procmail contrib. For reasons which I can't yet fathom, I am seeing some messages not being processed, including delivery rules which worked previously, and which have not been changed.

I have smeserver-mailsorting-1.2-8.el4.sme, smeserver-userpanel-0.9-10 and smeserver-userpanels-1.0-5 (I updated mailsorting yesterday in case it had fixed this issue).

The particular message I used to help track the issue (one which was delivered correctly previously) has no references in the procmail.log file. Is it possible to increase the logging to determine why it is not being dealt with?

Finally, as well as the .procmailrc file, I also have a .mailfilter which seems to include rules too. Both have the same timestamp from when I last adjusted a rule. What is .mailfilter used for?

Thanks for any help,

Des

[mdo]

The .mailfilter file is used for the (already available) alternative to procmail which is called "maildrop".
We prefer maildrop over procmail because we find the logs to be better (more details) and this is working consistently for us.

It's a simple switch from using maildrop instead of procmail but I am not sure whether that is an additional contrib from Dungog what you might have to pay for. We pay Dungog for the whole set of addons because they do good work.

Michael

[stephen noble]

i only use maildrop now, so can't help with procmail questions

to try maildrop instead of procmail
http://www.dungog.net/sme/usermanager.php#proc

db configuration setprop qmail FilterType maildrop
signal-event mailsorting-conf

[ddougan]

Thanks, Stephen.

I've already switched over, based on Michael's email. Other than two active mailing list rules in which I'd used "Email Headers" as the criterion, so far, so good. (The two with Email Headers weren't processed, dropping the mail into the Inbox.)


Regards,

Des