Procmail woes....

[Nathan A. McQuillen]

I don't know what exactly is going wrong there, but AFAIK, it doesn't
matter: you don't need to set up a .forward file at all. Most modern Linux
distros will automatically invoke Procmail if you have a .procmailrc in
your home directory. If I recall, .procmailrc needs to live in a directory
with open execute permissions ( chmod a+x . ) and the file itself needs to
be readable by all ( chmod a+r .procmailrc ). There's probably a better
way to do that but... ;)

Good stuff at
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/users/reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html .

Good luck.

- Nathan


On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, ripstop wrote:

> 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
>
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