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They went through now. What I was thinking (saw the files categories but I guess I am too much into mutt now)

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	fetchmailrc.txt (333 Bytes, 1 views)
	procmailrc.txt (1,001 Bytes, 1 views)
	muttrc.txt (2.8 KB, 1 views)

Just tested with the settings mentioned in the 3 files and it all works ok when executed after the new mail is passed to the folders. A command of c was added in the macro C which executes the saving of the attachment of the latest e-mail with subject CDR. However, there is the same complaint that 'No recipients were specified'. I guess at this point, there is no way to run a mutt command without actually interacting with the interface for acknowledgement of recieving new mail. In this situation it appears to me that somehow the command is interpreted as if an e-mail needs to be sent. Will keep digging.
Thanks again for the assistance and various tips which were of great help in understanding mail process in linux.

More on the testing:
I configured muttrc to toss the new messages from /var/spool/mail/alice to my home mail directory as seen below
, and even added a command that sends a message to me in my shell script
while it executes the macro.
I even created a piece of script that runs mutt macro again and scheduled it in cron to run after the failed script
All to no avail. But if I run the culprit macro above from the command line and press enter manually, all works perfectly.

Will continue investigating

Is there a way to pass an <enter> within a shell (or simulate a keyboard <enter> ) somehow so I can emulate the mutt running as if I was running it manually?
I tried exit, echo blank, \n after the command line. Nothing worked.