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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sgi.com!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!unixhub!news.Stanford.EDU!andrsn.stanford.edu!andrsn From: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: .forward file format Date: 25 Oct 1996 22:50:37 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 38 Message-ID: <54rg7t$9cj@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <54olal$h5u@uuneo.neosoft.com> <54oo05$aj@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <54orfi$jte@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrsn.stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) wrote: : 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? Yes, I think so. I get some mail from a POP3 server and it goes directly into a mail box and never gets processed by procmail. Other mail comes to the queue, and when I process the queue the mail is then dealt with by the .forward file; my has "|IFS=' '&&p=/usr/local/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -Yf-||exit 75 #andrsn" which looks pretty much like yours. However, I think you can tell the popserver to put the mail wherever you want it--you might want to try telling it to put it in /var/spool/mqueue. Annelise