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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!news From: csdayton+usenet@midway.uchicago.edu (Soren Dayton) Subject: Re: procmail/sendmail installation In-Reply-To: jamah@dazeclub.stu.rpi.edu's message of 26 Feb 1996 18:56:29 GMT X-Nntp-Posting-Host: woodlawn.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <xcdd970rdbn.fsf@woodlawn.uchicago.edu> To: jamah@dazeclub.stu.rpi.edu (JaMah!) Lines: 36 Sender: csdayton@woodlawn.uchicago.edu Organization: uchi.comp.unix viper cabal X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 References: <4gsvou$hco@usenet.rpi.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:35:40 GMT Our friend, jamah@dazeclub.stu.rpi.edu (JaMah!), wrote: > The package description suggests putting lines > in a file for sendmail - hostname.mc, but I do not know where this > file lives or is supposed to be. Any help would be appreciated. It is the file that you generate your sendmail.cf with. If you are using sendmail-8.7.4 (and there are good security reasons to do so) then you would do something like this: FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl .... .... MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(procmail)dnl Then rebuild it as in the instructions. > Again, this is to install procmail to be referenced by > sendmail as the default mail delivery agent. I believe this would > be better than having to put a .forward to reference procmail, if > you believe differently please explain why. Well, they would be wrong in any case :) > What I need the most is a step-by-step *full* explanation of > how to make procmail work with sendmail. Thanks. Well.... Not much to it really. get procmail 3.11pre4. type make. type make install-suid add those lines to the file that you use to generate your sendmail.cf, rebuild your sendmail.cf, and then kill and restart the daemon... Soren