Hi Sarah,
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:11:17AM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Hi all, > > I was hoping someone on the list could confirm for me what the proper format > for the ~/.forward file is for use with procmail (and OpenSMTPd on OpenBSD). > > Currently I have ~/.forward > > | /usr/local/bin/procmail > > but other information I've seen says it should be > > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail || exit 75 #your_user_name" > > > Which is correct, or is there a different format altogether that I should be > using? > in theory the second one is the right one, but when I wrote the code a while ago I think I detected the use of ", I need to double check as aliases support went through a major rewrite a few months ago and I'm unsure if both are considered valid by the parser. if there is no ambiguity either one should work > --------------- > > Some context of why I ask about this: > > [...] > > Perhaps my .forward files contain the wrong invocation of procmail, or there > is a bug in (my version of) OpenSMTPd. > it's a bug, and I actually have it is actually very high in my TODO as it can cause an entire list to be rejected at session time when ONE recipient is rejected. I will get back to you when I have a diff to test, but that's very unlikely in the coming days. > Any comments would be appreciated. > > :-) > -- Gilles Chehade http://www.poolp.org/ @poolpOrg
