Re: Using BSD Mail to read from my mbox

> Hi folks, I have just installed and configured procmail-3.11pre4. My
> question deals with the behaviour of the BSD Mail utility. I used to
> be able to read my mail from the $HOME/mbox file but since installing
> procmail, the Mail utility seems to ignore the contents of the mbox.
> If I run "Mail" it tells me that I have no mail. If I start it up with
> Mail -f mbox, then I can see the messages. Am I doing something wrong?
> Is there some recipe I need to add to my .procmailrc file?

It isn't procmail which is responsible for *reading* the
mail.  Procmail only delivers the mail; it's up to you
to read it.

The procmail package comes with three Bourne shell scripts
called {1,2,3}rmail, in the examples directory.  You should
use a script based on one of those to read the mail.

(Incidentally, Stephen, there's a typo in those scripts.  It
should be "your" favourite mailer.  

Luck++;
Phil

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