I get these procmail: Skipped “(something)” messages in the log, what do they mean?
They’re Procmail’s way of saying you have a syntax error in your recipes. One frequent misunderstanding occurs when you have several actions which you would like to do in response to a matched condition. There must be one “colon” line for each action, and each action must have a colon line. See examples above and below, especially the question which has the answer “use braces”. Q: I copied the backup example recipe into my .procmailrc but it just seems to produce a lot of errors and no backup file. A: It’s not a “backup file”, it’s supposed to be backing up to a directory, and if that directory doesn’t exist, it will not work. Read the paragraph before the example on the procmailex(5) manual page.
