On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, thus spake Binand Raj S:
> Well, since you insist...
Yeah, thanks :)
> I am not sure I get this - what do you mean, ISP? Or is it the site that hosts
> kcircle.com? And, is email.fwd a sendmail aliases file? Have you included it
Yep, my webhost (virtual server, 100 megs, no root privileges). email.fwd
is a sendmail alias file in my home directory, and my webhost polls this
file every six hours to update /etc/virtusertable (these users don't
exist, they are simply forwarding aliases)
> Path is correct?
Yep, afaict.
> Set verbose on while debugging procmail and send logs to a file - it helps.
Did that - it says "Can't find formail" ?!? The procmail path is
perfectly ok.
> Nowadays sendmail come with (at least in RHL 6.0) procmail as the default MDA.
> So the .forward is not really necessary.
This is not redhat unfortunately. It is sendmail 8.9.3 on a SunOS 5.7
box. However, procmail ~is~ the default mda. The .forward is to use a
local .procmailrc and setup autoresponders.
> See above. Which program parses email.fwd?
I ~think~ a simple shell script, called through a cronjob. I'm not root,
and I have no idea (though a pretty good guess) :)
Thanks. I asked my webhost's techsupport, which has the fine print "No
procmail help". This procmailrc was generated using a template from their
site, and almost no tweaking (added the :0 ic to deliver mail as well as
sending back an auto-ack).
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