maildrop logging overwriting instead of appending

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Oct 1 00:16:27 UTC 2011


On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

> Ok, I finally took the plunge today and converted my .procmailrc into
> a .mailfilter, adjusted my .forward file, and am now, for the most
> part, a contented new maildrop user.  :-)
>
> Just one problem: on each invocation of maildrop, the logfile is being
> overwritten, rather than appended to.
>
> I have the following in my .mailfilter file (this is outside of any
> specific filtering rule):
>
> logfile "Mail/maildrop.log"

Maybe use an absolute path like "~/Mail/maildrop.log" or 
"$HOME/Mail/maildrop.log"?


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