Rob, I attached a clip of the 'man procmail' on EFN - don't know if that
is the problem.
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BuGless Last change: 1994/10/20 12
PROCMAIL(1) USER COMMANDS PROCMAIL(1)
For security reasons procmail will only use an absolute or
$HOME-relative rcfile if it is either owned by the recipient
or root and not world writable, or if the directory it is
contained in is not world writable.
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Here is an example that I used to get notification when I received
mail on this account:
.forward:
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #horst"
.procmailrc:
:0 h c
*!^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*!^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| formail -r -I"To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" \
-I"Subject:Mail received at DNSI account" | $SENDMAIL -t
(However, after DNSI changed ownership the new owner made a number
of changes that broke the process ... and he was not very cooperative
in getting it fixed)
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Rob Hudson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using sendmail and fetchmail (with mutt) to handle my email.
> I'd like to start using the procmail to filter the various mailing
> lists into folders. I read somewhere to use a .forward file with
> '|/usr/bin/procmail' as its contents, and then set up the
> .procmailrc in the home directory.
>
> This setup gave an error in my maillog ...
> DSN: /home/rob/.forward: line 1: |/usr/bin/procmail... Address
> <rob@localhost> is unsafe for mailing to programs
>
> How does one properly set up procmail?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob.
>
>
