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Re: [Nmh-workers] slocal (or something) consumes mail
From: |
Josh Bressers |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] slocal (or something) consumes mail |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:10:49 -0500 |
>
> I'm tearing my hair over this stupid problem!
>
> On my workstation (RH 9) I use nmh and slocal works just fine.
> This is the .forward file
> "|/usr/local/nmh1/lib/slocal -user wilson"
> The .maildelivery file is large and has given no problems.
>
> On my new Emperorlinux Thinkpad T42 running Fedora Core 4,
> I have exactly the same setup. BUT, both good mail and spam
> simply disappear! If I remove the .forward file, all mail
> is delivered to my mailbox (/var/spool/mail/wilson) normally.
>
> If .forward is present, mail that I know is at the ISP (e.g., I've sent
> to myself) is lost: I do fetchmail, then inc (just as on the workstation),
> but nothing is inc'd. If the mail is spam, nothing appears in $HOME/.spam
Stewart,
Try running slocal through strace:
echo testing | strace /usr/lib/nmh/slocal -user wilson
See if anything is obviously wrong.
You may also want to try installing the nmh rpm from Fedora Extras to see
if that works as expected.
--
JB