Re: procmail ........ (again)

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@gmx.net>]

On: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:10:47 -0600 (EST) Nathan E Norman writes:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
>  : On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 10:44:59PM +0000, Gossamer wrote:
>  : > Actually you don't need ANY .forward fo rprocmail to work, as long as
>  : > you have a .procmailrc file in your homedir.  Debian uses is as a
>  : > user-agent.
>  : 
>  : Bad assumption as Exim does not use it at all.  And since, IIRC,
>  : Phil is using Exim, he would either have to use Exim's filtering
>  : (which has been suggested to him several times now) or use the
>  : .forward method.
> 
> No Debian MTA comes preconfigured to use procmail that I know of ...
> sendmail certainly doesn't (though adding it is no big deal).  We
> use exim on our hub machines, and I've hated smail since I saw it,
> so I can't comment on it at all.

I have sendmail 8.9.1 installed and it uses sensible-mda as MDA.  If
procmail is installed, sensible-mda will use it, otherwise deliver is
used:

       ...
       sensible-mda  is called by sendmail as a local mailer when
       the      following      exists       in       sendmail.mc:
       define('LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS',     'sensible-mda     $g    $u
       ${client_addr}')dnl

       This program is included so  that  sendmail  can  function
       with  either procmail or deliver as its MDA (with procmail
       taking precedence).
       ...

Usually you have procmail installed, so procmail is the default MDA
for sendmail.

	Torsten

BTW: sendmail_8.9.1-15