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Procmail cloning mail

I use exim4, getmail and procmail. I want procmail to filter spam.It works OK, only doesn't stop. When I get an email, procmail starts cloning it. And there's no way to stop it, until removing .procmailrc completely. I don't want my hard drive to be stuffed with a multiple copies of the same spam email.How can I stop procmail?

Can you post the contents of your .procmailrc file please? It would help if we could see what might be causing the problem...

OK, gilead, if you are interested. But I guess, I found the solution. I don't try procmail any more. I am not running an email server. I just need to filter spam for my domestic purposes. I use slocal instead. But anyway,
I use exim4 to send emails, getmail to receive emails and nmh to handle emails. Getmail was configured to output to procmail like this:

~/.getmail/getmailrc:

Code:

[destination]

type = MDA_external

path = /usr/bin/procmail

unixfrom = True

~/.procmailrc was like this:

Code:

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/lib/mh

MAILDIR=HOME/Mail 

DEFAULT=/Mail/inbox

LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log

SHELL=/bin/sh



:0

* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes

| /usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +spam



I see now a kind of a mistake for my HOME directory.

There should be probably a "$" sign ahead of HOME,

or maybe, procmail is just not compatible with MH trough

getmail,I don't know.

~/.mh_profile is

Code:

Path: /home/rex/Mail

Msg-Protect: 600

Folder-Protect: 700

draft-folder: drafts

unseen-sequence: unseen

I spent two days to make procmail to respond. And when I did, it went the way I described. Now I switched to slocal. It doesn't clone the mails but I didn't get spam yet to test how it works. Thank you for your reply.

I'm glad you've been able to figure out a solution and yes you are correct - it should have been $HOME, not HOME. Also, I wouldn't put the procmail.log file in your MAILDIR - but neither of those look they would cause a loop.

I don't know procmail, but with postfix/maildrop, I use user+spam rather than +spam

Hello, guys. Slocal filters spam very well.
To the guys who have the same problem I would recommend:
don't use the "getmail-procmail-mh" combination,
use "getmail-slocal-mh" instead.