On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 08:48:34AM +0000, Glyn Millington wrote:
-> 
-> 
-> Which MTAs do you use - sendmail, fetchmail.......?  

Sendmail


-> 
-> If so then Martin Hollands wonderful Noether Linux page has
-> plenty of useful stuff
-> http://www.noether.freeserve.co.uk

I must have missed it.


-> 
-> and for setting up procmail with Mutt  have a look at Telsa's
-> page:-
-> 
-> http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/~hobbit/cave.html

Has some excellent procmail recipes, but I didn't see how to set it up to
use procmail.


I found the following error message in root's mailbox:


 
The original message was received at Sun, 19 Mar 2000 13:51:06 -0700
from root@localhost
 
   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #ccurley"
    (expanded from: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
 
   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
sh: cannot use & in command
554 "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #ccurley"... Service unavailable
 
[-- Attachment #2 --]
[-- Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --]
Reporting-MTA: dns; trib.com
Arrival-Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 13:51:06 -0700
 
Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; |IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 
#[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 13:52:21 -0700
 
[-- Attachment #3 --]
[-- Type: message/rfc822, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.5K --]
 
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 13:51:06 -0700
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test 02
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5us
 
This is another test message, via procmail.
 



That is the text of my ~/.forward file

I got the offending line from
http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/, another web page where the
author looks like she knows what she is doing.

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