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procmail如何知道邮件文件所在的位置？

[英]How does procmail know where the mail file exists?

原文 2014-02-13 16:25:55 4 1 procmail

I inherited some software that somebody else wrote that uses procmail with which I have no experience. 我继承了其他人编写的某些软件，这些软件使用的procmail我没有经验。
When I run procmail it seems to just sit there. 当我运行procmail时，它似乎就坐在那儿。 I'm assuming it is looking the mail file in a particular location, but I'm not exactly sure where that is. 我假设它正在特定位置查找邮件文件，但我不确定该在哪里。

If I go in to my mail client (mail on linux), I can see I have two messages (unread) there, but procmail does not seem to be processing it. 如果我进入邮件客户端（Linux上的邮件），可以看到我有两条消息（未读），但是procmail似乎没有处理它。
My default mail file location is in /var/mail/<myUsername> . 我的默认邮件文件位置在/var/mail/<myUsername> 。

Is procmail looking in some other location? procmail是否在其他位置查找？ How do I tell procmail where to look for the mail file? 如何告诉procmail在哪里寻找邮件文件？

1 个解决方案

Sounds like you are not invoking Procmail correctly. 听起来您未正确调用Procmail。 The usual way is by creating a file .procmailrc . 通常的方法是通过创建文件.procmailrc 。 If your sysadmin is not running Procmail as the default LDA, you may also need to create a .forward or similar. 如果您的系统管理员未将Procmail作为默认的LDA运行，则可能还需要创建.forward或类似文件。

It will not handle any existing mail, but it will be hooked in when new mail arrives. 它不会处理任何现有邮件，但是会在收到新邮件时将其挂接。 You can process old mail via formail -s procmail but that's not how you usually deploy it. 您可以通过formail -s procmail处理旧邮件， formail -s procmail不是通常的部署方式。

If you run it from the command line, it will be expecting an email message on standard input. 如果您从命令行运行它，它将在标准输入中期待一封电子邮件。 If you don't know how to type in an RFC822-compatible message, you could be messing up your inbox, although it's probably not very hard to clean up. 如果您不知道如何输入与RFC822兼容的消息，则可能会弄乱收件箱，尽管清理起来可能并不难。

procmail -v will reveal how it was configured at compile time, including the default mail location. procmail -v将显示在编译时如何配置它，包括默认的邮件位置。