Re: admin: Exim install on master

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

Thanks for all the info Jason, and the hard work. Two queries:

On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 12:15:26AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> procmail
> ~~~~~~~~
> ** If you use procmail for your main mailbox, PLEASE, erase your .forward
> file and put a .procmailrc in its place instead! This feature has been
> supported on master for a good while now, and will continue to be
> supported. 
> 
> The correct way to invoke procmail is "|/usr/bin/procmail [options]"
> Ignore the IFS=".." stuff in the procmail man page.

If .forward is not needed, why is the command to invoke procmail important?

> Also, 'Exim Filter' files are deliberately turned off.

How come? They're cool -- much cooler than procmail. .procmailrc files
make sendmail.cf look like easy reading.



Thanks,
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>