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Grex Garage Item 7: Procmail
Entered by ric on Fri Feb 18 19:36:15 UTC 2005:

How do I use procmail on Grex?

I have a .procmailrc but it seems to be ignored, so I can only assume that
grex isn't using procmail as the delivery agent.

6 responses total.

#1 of 6 by gelinas on Fri Feb 18 19:56:55 2005:

Procmail is called from your .forward.  Have you set that up?

#2 of 6 by ric on Fri Feb 18 20:06:09 2005:

Obviously not, or I wouldn't be asking this question =)  
What do I need to put in my .forward?

#3 of 6 by gelinas on Fri Feb 18 20:10:32 2005:

Sindi Keesan, who uses procmail extensively, has:

        |/usr/local/bin/procmail

I think the file has to be world-readable; hers is:

        -rw-r--r--  1 keesan  people  132 Dec 30 11:07 /a/k/e/keesan/.forward

#4 of 6 by ric on Fri Feb 18 20:28:00 2005:

Ah, I got it working:

My .forward is now:

| /usr/local/bin/procmail

My .procmailrc is now:

:0
* !^From:.*cyberspace.org.*$
/c/r/i/ric/spam

#5 of 6 by naftee on Fri Feb 18 20:33:20 2005:

Just like it says in the man page!

#6 of 6 by blaise on Sun Feb 20 23:05:45 2005:

Yes, by Grex system policy, a .forward file must be world-readable to be
active.  (I ran into that once myself...)

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