Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:10:48 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <vedette@iconnect.co.ke> To: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Procmail Message-ID: <20000922121048.F50352@siafu.iconnect.co.ke>
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After a very long period of headache with hundreds of e-mail from all parts of the world (I even had to create a user acct dedicated to FreeBSD-questions list!!) I finally managed to get procmail to do it for me - sort the mails into mailboxes (pls don't laugh at me, I can see you giggling). But now every e-mail that comes to me has these funny fortunes appended at the top!! Two fortunes to be exact. The only place I call fortunes from is my .cshrc. Why?? I've not told procmail to do that. I call procmail from .forward "| /usr/local/bin/procmail" NB: There were about 5 options for calling it from the HOWTO I relied on and my way of calling it is NOT amongst them. Here are what they suggested; 1. In a Perfect World:-) "| exec /usr/local/bin/procmail #vedette" 2. Almost Perfect World: "| exec /usr/local/bin/procmail USER=vedette" 3. In Another world: "| IFS=' ' ; exec /usr/local/bin/procmail #vedette" 4. Different world: "| IFS=' ' ; exec /usr/local/bin/procmail USER=vedette" 5. Smrsh world: "| /usr/local/bin/procmail #vedette" They noted that these formats can be tried in different combinations, the leading "| can be tried as |" instead, or vice versa. Now, looking at all those options, NONE worked for me. So mine is in a weird world, isn't it? If I added anything after the word 'procmail' I would compalints that mail addressed to me is bouncing...but all the same I ended up getting a copy because I was clever enough ;-) to have the line vedette@iconnect.co.ke after the procmail line..phew..but now I have removed that... Procmail is not my default mail deliver agent. Well all this is peculiar to me. I just don't like the fortunes being forcefully embedded into all incoming mails. Someone must have had that experience. And neither do I want to remove the fortune lines from my .cshrc . Is procmail getting its funny ideas from .cshrc?? thanks/danke/merci Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Systems Administrator Inter-Connect Ltd. 3rd Flr The Chancery Valley Rd PO Box 39519 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: 254 2 711140 Fax: 254 2 718418 One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -Plato To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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