Re: [TCLUG:9185] procmail

[Luke Francl <fran0382@tc.umn.edu>]

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Joel A. Koepp wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Luke Francl wrote:
> 
> > But here's the basics.
> > 
> > First, create a .forward file with this text:
> > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #<USERNAME>
> > 
> 
> I could be wrong about this, so please correct me if so...but I think this
> .forward file is only necessary if your local sendmail process is not
> configured to look for procmail. I seem to recall a line in my sendmail.cf
> looking like 'local(procmail)' or something like that. I don't have a
> .forward and procmail works spiffy for me. But this all may be
> specific to using fetchmail to get remote mail and then passing it along
> to sendmail for local delivery. Perhaps you need that file for a mailer
> that gets remote mail on its own and puts it in ~/Mail/Inbox instead of
> /var/spool/mail/<username>.

Hmmm...I don't know. I just followed the guidelines from the FAQ, and
well...It works. On garnet, anway! YMMV...

Luke