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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?
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References: <54olal$h5u@uuneo.neosoft.com> <54oo05$aj@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
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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?

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