Procmail
I know this isn't strictly a debian related issue, but since I am trying
to sort the mail from this list I had hoped someone might be able to help.
I am trying to get procmail set up on an HP workstation (no root
access). I have managed to get a .procmailrc file worked out, and I
think I am close to getting the .forward worked out. But not quite...
First, the example .forward file does not work on my HP machine. Causes
a nice mess of my incoming mail (basically I receive none of it) followed
by a nice discussion with the sysadmin wanting to know what the devil I
am doing.....
In any case, playing with vacation on the machine (for examples of the
.forward file), I have managed to come up with,
\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;
----- Transcript of session follows -----
sh: procmail not available for sendmail programs
554 "|/home/mustang/grad/sstanley/bin/procmail -f- VERBOSE=on"... Service
unavailable
Does anyone have any suggestions?? A pointer to some documentation on
the format of this type of thing in the .forward file would be great.
The sendmail man page mentions .forward, but only briefly, and I can not
find any reference to it anywhere else. I am pretty much working blind
here....
Scott
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