Re: procmail

[moseley@hank.org]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 03:12:10AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 05:26:00PM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> > I got fetchmail and exim running with a pop3 dialup isp, and
> > mail goes into /var/spool/mail/russell. However, procmail doesn't
> > seem to do anything with it. Is exim meant to start procmail?
> 
> Nope.  Add |/usr/bin/procmail to your ~/.forward file to get procmail
> involved int he process.

Perhaps I missed the start of this thread, but with Debian and Exim you
don't need a .forward to use procmail.

One thing that has caught me is that setting rules in /etc/procmail only 
work if the user has a .procmailrc.

Sorry if I'm missing the point of the thread.


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Bill Moseley
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