Thanx Raider and Clinton, putting that line in .forward worked for me.
Basically, i get my mails delivered to my mailbox from sendmail. To quote
procmail man page, " Procmail should be invoked automatically over
the .forward"
> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Clinton Bentley wrote: file mechanism as soon as
mail arrives. Alternatively,
> > On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Raider wrote: when installed by a system
administrator, it can be
> > > Mail can be delivered to send mail, or other MDA (Mail Delivery
invoked from within the mailer immediately." Well, I thought just making a
.procmailrc file should suffice, but it seems it is not the case. Is it only
me or everyone using sendmail needs to put that entry in .forward file?
-wiz.
> > > 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
> --
> ``Liberate tu-temet ex inferis''
>
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