Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:37:51 -0400 From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> To: David.Bear@asu.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: procmail, forward, and postfix Message-ID: <oprwr5ldns6rpidw@smtpx.operamail.com> In-Reply-To: <20031008221642.M11482@asu.edu> References: <20031008221642.M11482@asu.edu>
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On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:16:42 -0700, David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> wrote: > I don't understand a thing it does.. but I put it in my home directory > anyway and called it .forward. > > It appears the procmail is no 'firing' when message come. Looking for > any pointers? been through to procmail faq sites and thought there > might be a recommendation here. Do you have a ~/.procmailrc file? If so, what is it? > contents of .forward > "|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- > || exit 75 #Metropolis" > > 'Metropolis' is the name of the account. Any pointers? Is procmail installed at /usr/local/bin/procmail? (Sorry had to ask) If so, then you need a .procmailrc file. It can be as simple as this: # Edit as appropriate PATH=/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin SHELL=/bin/sh # DIRECTORY where you want to store mail # MAKE SURE IT EXISTS MAILDIR=$HOME/mail LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail.log VERBOSE=yes # Change to 'no' once you have it working LOGABSTRACT=all :0c: Backups # EOF All that will do is make a backup COPY (hence the ":0c:") of all your incoming mail. It's an easy way to test to make sure procmail is working... that, and see if there is anything in the log file. TjL ps - nothing really FBSD-specific here, so you might want to checkout the super-handy procmail list: http://www.procmail.org/era/lists.html -- FBSD 4.9 on a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop
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