Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:16:01 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@keyslapper.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: procmail setup troubles Message-ID: <20011112181601.GB53398@keyslapper.org> In-Reply-To: <20011112084516.A15805@sociostat.org> References: <20011112084516.A15805@sociostat.org>
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--2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/12/01 08:45 AM, Eric Cheney sat at the `puter and typed: >=20 >=20 > Hi folks. I can't get procmail to filter mail. Here's the story. > I'm migrating mail from a debian box to my FreeBSD box. I simply stole= =20 > the .fetchmailrc and .procmailrc files from the debian box and put them i= n=20 > the home directory of the FreeBSD box. Both of these files were fully=20 > functional with the debian box, so I think they are ok. =20 > Then I installed procmail using the ports collection... Finally I made a= =20 > .forward file with the line "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail || exit 75" .= ... > I put this .forward file in my home directory. >=20 > With this setup procmail just loses all incoming mail, and some mail=20 > is not even fetched because it says it cannot resolve the domain=20 > of the sender. >=20 > What am I doing wrong? Any ideas out there?=20 >=20 Keep in mind that procmail is only a filter agent. It will never see incoming mail unless you hand it off to procmail. This is done by the MTA, or Mail Transfer Agent. Probably Sendmail. Look for a sendmail.mc file on the debian box. It probably has the method used to hand off to procmail. Of course, you could just edit your /etc/mail/freebsd.mc file and check out the sendmail-cf files in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/*. Also, make sure you look at /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README. It has ALL the info you could hope for, and probably more than you can absorb in one go. HTH Lou --=20 Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org =D4=BF=D4=AC Coward, n.: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE78BHheAPWYrNkRWIRAurVAJ96DMmLrvk2VXeO5o0YRdga5ePgVwCfbGuA HMM/rf1B3OyXlmmLXOBIGwg= =G3Pj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2B/JsCI69OhZNC5r-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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