Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:30:41 -0400 From: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> To: Lisa Casey <lisa@jellico.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Procmail not recognising /etc/procmailrc? Message-ID: <20071012153041.xgonxe9ggkwko0k0@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <00e701c80d05$d296e0c0$d5b9bfcf@lisac> References: <00e701c80d05$d296e0c0$d5b9bfcf@lisac>
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Quoting Lisa Casey <lisa@jellico.com>: > Hi, > > This is kind of off topic for this list, but I know a lot of FreeBSD > Admins use Procmail, so hopefully someone here can help. > > I'm running procmail 3.22 on FreeBSD. I verified that procmail does > work on my system by following the "testing your procmail > installation" in the ii Procmail Quick Start. Procmail worked > flawlessly in processing a .procmailrc file in my home directory. > Problem is, I can't seem to get it to do what is in my > /etc/procmailrc file. Either procmail doesn't recognise the > /etc/procmailrc file, or my syntax in that file is wrong. As with most FreeBSD ports, procmail on FreeBSD looks under /usr/local/etc for its configuration information. Just use that path instead of /etc in any non-FreeBSD documentation you encounter and you should be fine. JN
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