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Re: Procmail will not .forward
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Tue Oct 22 08:21:28 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:19:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
To: Dwight Johnson <djohnson@olympus.net>
cc: Red Hat List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961022050137.201B-100000@inspire.olympus.net>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> I set up procmail using the man page and it works when I
> postprocess the mail with the shell script from the man page. But
> when I place .forward in $HOME it does absolutely nothing.
>
> This is my .forward:
>
> "|IFS=' '&& exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #djohnson"
>
> ls-l shows:
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 djohnson djohnson 58 Oct 21 09:39 .forward
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 djohnson djohnson 284 Oct 21 07:44 .procmailrc
>
> Some people on the Procmail List have told me procmail should
> work without .forward because I have
>
> Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@ShPfn, S=10/30, R=20/40,
> A=procmail -a $h -d $u
>
> in /etc/sendmail.cf. But without .forward it doesn't work either.
>
> I am using Red Hat Linux 3.0.3, procmail-3.10, sendmail-8.7.6,
> and kernel 2.0.23.
You shouldn't need the .forward file - the default setup works fine for me
and most likely others.
*Really* dumb questions (please answer anyways):
- Do you have a .procmail set up? What is its expected results?
- Is the procmail package installed?
-- Elliot
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