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Date:      02 Jan 2003 18:18:21 +0000
From:      Ian Watkinson <ian.watkinson@ehsbrann.com>
To:        nkinkade@dsl-only.net
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Procmail and Exim - Freebsd
Message-ID:  <1041531501.317.2.camel@pan.ehsbrann.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030102170902.GF5327@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
References:  <20030102170902.GF5327@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>

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On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 17:09, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:39:07PM +0000, Ian Watkinson wrote:
> > Trying to get Fetmail - Procmail - Exim working.
> > 
> > >From the Exim site for Version 4, it suggests
> > 
> > # transport
> > snip

>  
> >   # router
> snip

> >  
> > 
> > In the exim config file, however, when I start Exim, I get
> > 
> >  exim
> > 2003-01-02 15:35:27 Exim configuration error in line 228:
> >   transport procmail: cannot find transport driver "accept"
> > 
> > Line 228 of the config file is the 
> > driver = accept
> > line.
> > 
> > Anyone got exim and procmail working together, 
> > and would care to share that part of the file with the
> > list.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Ian
> 
> Are you sure that sure that each of your "transport" and "route"
> declarations are in the correct sections of the config file?  Make sure
> that your router configuration ONLY comes after the the line 
> "begin routers" and that your transport config only comes after the line 
> "begin transports".  The config file is not randomly parsed.  There are
> definite discrete sections that need to be observed.  It looks as if you
> have put your router definition in the transport section.
> 
> Nathan

Hallelujah! Nathan said let there be light, and a bulb appeared above Ian's head!

That looks to be it, looking at the exim docs again, it's not clear anywhere that it needs to 
be inserted in certain sections.

Thanks very much for that.

Any idea if these replace any of the normal router/transports, or are pure additions?



> -- 
> 
> Ian Watkinson
> EHS Brann
> Systems Administrator


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