>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher W Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christopher> My .forward file looks like this (same as other Linux versions):
Christopher> "|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -ptoY -f-||exit 75 #cwa"
Christopher> The fetchmail process acts like the .forward and procmail
Christopher> don't even exist.
I've had trouble getting .forward files to work with sendmail; are you
using sendmail? Of course, postfix may work like sendmail in this
case. Check the permissions on your .forward file, and make sure it
isn't a link. The permissions may need to be set to not be readable
by anything other than the owner.
Run sendmail by hand with all the verbosity turned on and see
whether it complains about something. See if there are relevant
messages in /var/log/maillog.
If it is sendmail, there's a variable called DONTBLAMESENDMAIL or
something like that that might have to be set.
Fetchmail is probably innocent in this case; once it downloads the
mail it (usually) passes it on to your local mailer (by default
postfix), and that's what should be respecting your .forward file.
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