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From: dannyman@arh0135.urh.uiuc.edu (Dannyman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: .forward file format
Date: 24 Oct 1996 21:44:37 GMT
Organization: National Semi-Autonomous Republic of Dannyland
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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.

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