\t\t\t\tIt’s usually not really big fun, if you find a message like this in your procmail log file: “procmail: Missing action<\/i>“.<\/p>\n
Well, I don’t yet know of a procmail syntax checker, which is rather a pity, so the debugging is of a dynamic kind.<\/p>\n
Just add “VERBOSE=on<\/i>” in the beginning of your .procmailrc<\/span><\/span>, enjoy the flood of “procmail: No match on …<\/i>,”, and find your “procmail: Missing action<\/i>” occasionally in the middle of it. You found the corrupted rule then. The rule in question might actually be a very rarely used one resp. one pretty at the end of your .procmailrc<\/span><\/span>, so it may take a while resp. a couple of incoming mails, until it gets used and shows up. Update 2013-01-07:<\/p>\n This article attracted far too much SPAM, so I had to disable commenting.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s usually not really big fun, if you find a message like this in your procmail log file: “procmail: Missing action“. Well, I don’t yet know of a procmail syntax checker, which is rather a pity, so the debugging is of a dynamic kind. Just add “VERBOSE=on” in the beginning of your .procmailrc, enjoy the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[1316],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-spam-target"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-D5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOnce you found and corrected the offender, I am quite sure, you will remove “VERBOSE=on<\/i>” very quickly.<\/p>\n