Procmail woes....

[Mark T. Valites]

That assumes the distro uses procmail as the local transfer agent (lta).

On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Nathan A. McQuillen wrote:

> Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 21:45:17 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Nathan A. McQuillen <nm@steaky.org>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Procmail woes....
>
>
> 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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