Re: Procmail and smail

[Mika Fischer <mika_fischer@gmx.net>]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 11:13:48AM -0000, Moore, Paul wrote :
> Hi,
> I have smail and procmail installed, and I want to get them working
> together. I am currently using a .forward file to push my mail through
> procmail, but what I'd like is if smail used procmail directly as the
> local delivery agent (when I used the SuSE distribution, with sendmail
> and procmail, it did this). This would mean that any user with a
> .procmailrc would automatically get mail processed via procmail, without
> needing the extra .forward file.
> 
> I've looked in the smail and procmail documentation, but I can't see
> what I need to add to set this up. I guess I need some form of
> transports file, but I can't find an example I can work from.

For me, the following works well.
But I changed it only a few days ago and it may be incorrect.
I got it from some kind of procmail-doc (don't remember exactly)

---snip--- 'local' part of /etc/smail/transports
local:  driver=pipe,
        from,
        local,
        +inet,
        -uucp,
        return_path,
        unix_from_hack;
        cmd = "/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$)",
        user=root
---snip---

Anyhow many users here recommend "exim".

I'd like to know, what makes exim better before I try it, because smail
works very well.

Regards,
Mika

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Mika Fischer <mika_fischer@gmx.net>