Procmail woes....

[ripstop]

Hey all, I'm attempting to set up procmail (first time....wahoo) to auto
filter my email (furthering my migration from outlook)...

I've created a .forward file, with just the following line in it, in my
home directory, per some instructions I found on the net... 

"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #ripstop"

I have NOT created a .procmailrc file (from what I've read, procmail
will just pass the mail on into the spool file if there is no
.procmailrc).

Unfortunately, I'm getting the following error message back on my test
email sent to myself...


--- begin error message ---

The original message was received at Sun, 7 Jul 2002 17:46:42 -0700 from
IDENT:ripstop@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #ripstop"
    (reason: service unavailable)
    (expanded from: <ripstop@localhost>)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
smrsh: IFS=' not available for sendmail programs
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

--- end error message ---


Anyone have any ideas ?

Ripstop