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Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s



On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:49:07PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
| On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 22:23 GMT, Tom penned:
| > * [27/10/2003 22:54] Monique Y. Herman <spam@bounceswoosh.org>:
| > 
| >> > Has anyone else experienced something like this?
| >>  
| >> How are you calling procmail?  If it's from a .forward, can we see
| >> that, too?
| > 
| > Well, initially, I thought it was from a .forward. Afterwards, I
| > learned that today's Debian/Exim configuration doesn't need a .forward
| > to call procmail. As soon as a .procmailrc file exists in the user's
| > home directory, mail will be handed over.
| 
| Where did you find this information?  I'd like to read it myself.

/etc/exim.conf

(presumably you/he are using the old exim v3.x package)

| I didn't realize that editing a .procmailrc without having procmail
| set up through a .forward could get me into trouble ...

exim can be set up to handle procmail delivery directly, without the
indirection of a .forward file.

-D

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