still .forward problem

[news.spiegl@kascada.com (Andy Spiegl)]

Hi!

I am trying to set up a procmail filter for one of my users (kleist).
I put the following in his .forward file:
"|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Y || exit 75 #kleist"

Now when I send a test mail to him, it shows up in the queue, but doesn't
get delivered.  It sits there for quite a while.  Then - 15 to 25 minutes
later - all of a sudden sendmail decides to pipe it to procmail.

I guess I am doing something wrong, but I couldn't find anything in the
sendmail and procmail docs.

BTW, here are (parts of) what I found in /var/log/mail.log:
 Jan 11 14:54:37 localhost sendmail[3124]: OAA03124: to="|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Y || exit 75 #kleist", delay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=queued
 Jan 11 15:16:31 localhost sendmail[3236]: OAA03124: to="|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Y || exit 75 #kleist", ctladdr=kleist (1005/100), delay=00:21:54, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Sent


I also tried a simpler .forward ("|/bin/cat > /tmp/abc"), but same thing happened:

 Jan 11 15:34:33 localhost sendmail[3448]: PAA03448: to="|/bin/cat > /tmp/abc", delay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=queued
 Jan 11 15:46:31 localhost sendmail[3488]: PAA03448: to="|/bin/cat > /tmp/abc", ctladdr=kleist (1005/100), delay=00:11:58, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Sent

Thanks a lot in advance for any help,
 Andy.

PS: Sorry for the long lines.
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