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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!not-for-mail From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: .forward file format Date: 24 Oct 1996 22:44:02 GMT Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 26 Message-ID: <54orfi$jte@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <54olal$h5u@uuneo.neosoft.com> <54oo05$aj@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.184 In article <54oo05$aj@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Dannyman <djhoward@uiuc.edu> wrote: >Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) wrote: >: I'm trying to setup procmail to filter incoming messages to several >: different "folders", but it doesn't seem to be getting invoked when new >: mail arrives. I'm using the .forward file format shown in man procmail: >: >: "|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #conrads" > >I've use the following on two different FreeBSd systems for some time now; > >"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #dannyman" > > Your's looks more complicated. Tried your version and still no go. Weird. I can run procmail manually and it works, applying the filters I've setup, moving things to their proper places. But it *never* gets invoked by sendmail. Could it be because I'm using popclient to retrieve my mail from my ISP's POP3 server? -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |