Re: Debian + exim + procmail

["Steven E. Harris" <sharris@speakeasy.org>]

garyjones@linuxfreemail.com writes:

> I've also been told that in standard configuration exim doesn't even
> need the .forward, that just seeing a .procmailrc will provoke it
> into invoking procmail.

That's right. Here's a snippet from a typical Debian exim
configuration file:

,----[ /etc/exim.conf fragment ]
| # This director runs procmail for users who have a .procmailrc file
| 
| procmail:
|   driver = localuser
|   transport = procmail_pipe
|   require_files = ${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
|   no_verify
`----

Notice the "require_files" directive. It's saying that if
~/.procmailrc exists and procmail is installed, route the message
through the "procmail_pipe" transport, which you can find defined
elsewhere in the same file.

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