On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Clinton Bentley wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Raider wrote:
> > Mail can be delivered to send mail, or other MDA (Mail Delivery
> > Agent). This way doesn't count if procmail is up and running. Give more
> > details about how your mail getts on your system. If you use fetchmail to
> Quite...it is very important how the mail arrives. On my box I have EXIM
Well... I guess I never stated this isn't important. I just said
I need more info. And than I explained what will happen in a sittuation
like my own.
> running(sendmail replacement) and mail is delivered directly to my box.
Hmm... sendmail doesn't do the same thing? Or any other MDA?
procmail does some filtering, but the result is the same.
> Apon delivery the system looks for a .forward file on a users home
> directory, this is generally used to the forward all mail to another user,
> however if it contains only:
>
> |/usr/local/bin/procmail
>
> then all mail is piped through procmail and is filtered. Perhaps someone
> more familar with sendmail can tell me whether it does the same, as far as
> I know, it does.
I don't get you. Maybe it's the late hour. But I recall I said
that the fact 'procmail is up' can be irelevant if it isn't called. In
your case it's exactly what I said. Comment out that pipe and you'll see
that nothing happens even if procmail is sleeping in the background. So
the result will be that all mail is delivered to the system mailbox. At
that point one solution could be the one I gave with formail. I bet there
are a lot more ways to solve this problem. That was mine.
Raider
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``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
