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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!nntp.primenet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!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: 26 Oct 1996 01:18:38 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 31 Message-ID: <54rote$bsc@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <54olal$h5u@uuneo.neosoft.com> <54oo05$aj@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <54orfi$jte@uuneo.neosoft.com> <54rg7t$9cj@nntp.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: andrsn.stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Annelise Anderson (andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) wrote: : Conrad Sabatier (conrads@neosoft.com) wrote: : : 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. This won't work--but the man page for procmail says that it will process an already filled (the key word to search for) mailbox. There's a script for doing so that assumes the mail is put in /var/mail/username. So if you run popclient and then the script (extract it from the man page) it will process the mail in accordance with your .procmailrc. Annelise : Annelise