Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail error "requires envelope option"

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Rob MacGregor schrieb:

> Hey, at least you've learned to check the destination of last resort.
> It's something that's worth checking regularly and, along with your
> mail log, is something worth checking any time things seem to be going
> wrong.

A general hint is to consider maildrop http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/
as a filtering engine that is much easier to get working properly than
procmail.

It's more conservative than procmail in that it will simply defer all mail
on syntax errors in the file, or defer particular messages (pushing them
back to the queue where you'll see them with mailq(1)) on delivery errors
-- rather than dumping mail to a random place that procmail would call safe
but one never checks in a whole lifetime...

There are several design decisions in procmail that I have called and do
still call stupid, to the outrage of the procmail maintainers who call this
freedom of choice (which maildrop also offers BTW).
One man's meat is another man's poison.