Hi Glyn!
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Glyn Millington wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7.0 with a dial-up connection.
>
> My mail system involves
> Postfix to send , fetchmail to collect on POP3, procmail to
> distribute, mutt to read, write and generally be man's best
> friend!
>
> It works!
>
> It works because I invoke procmail from within my .fetchmailrc
> like this
>
> mda '/usr/bin/procmail -f - RCPT=%T /home/glyn/.procmailrc'
>
> Now the fetchmail manual says this is a bad idea, so I've tried
> to use let postfix call up procmail direct but can't get it to
> work - incoming post gets placed in the queue and returned to
> sender if I'm not careful.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get Postfix and Procmail to talk to
> each other? Or where to find clear guidance on the subject?
The procmail man page tells the tale :) You need to invoke procmail
from the .forward file in the user's home directory as:
"|exec /usr/bin/procmail"
The quotes are important, so keep them.
HTH
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