On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:39:17AM -0700, Tim Howe wrote:
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>if somebody has a quick answer to this, it might save me a little time..
>
>I use procmail, but the way I am calling it (I think), it reads the
>/etc/procmailrc before it looks for /home/user/.procmailrc.  What I want is
>to read the users file first, and if it isn't there, read the global one.
>
>This is my .forward
>----
>"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f $p&&exec $p -Yf-||exit 75
>#thowe"
>----
>
>Anybody know what has to change?
>

Hm; according to my manpages, it should read the .procmailrc first, and 
then /etc/procmailrc ...

You might try the following experiment ; put this in your .procmailrc
---
# to see if .procmailrc is parsed first
:0:
*
local
---
and this in /etc/procmailrc
---
# to see if systemwide is parsed first
:0:
*
$HOME/system
---
This should cause all mail to wind up in either a mailbox named local
(if .procmailrc is parsed first), or one named system (if /etc/procmailrc
is parsed first).  Let us know how it comes out...

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hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support
him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of
the house and not part of my family." Steve Wozniak, http://www.woz.org

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