Re: Procmail

[Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>]

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On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Scott Stanley wrote:
 
> \sstanley, "|/home/mustang/grad/sstanley/bin/procmail -f- VERBOSE=on"
> 
> The first \sstanley just makes sure the mail is copied directly to my 
> inbox before trying to run it through procmail.  Otherwise, I think it is 
> trying to run procmail, but I am getting a returned mail message with the 
> error;

You can do this with procmail itself, just put the following rule at the
very beginning in your .procmailrc

:0 c:
/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME

The "c" flag means "carbon copy": everything will go to
/var/spool/mail/yourlogin, but procmail will read the remaining
.procmailrc as if it had not delivered to that folder.

>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> sh: procmail not available for sendmail programs
> 554 "|/home/mustang/grad/sstanley/bin/procmail -f- VERBOSE=on"... Service 
> unavailable

However this error suggest that your sysadmin has decided to run sendmail
through some sort of restricted shell. If this is true, I can just suggest
to contact him and ask him politely to install procmail for everybody
(i.e. in /usr/local/bin or whatever), and let sendmail to execute procmail
from .forward.

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>, Debian procmail maintainer.

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