Autofwd:Re: Procmail woes....

[Mark T. Valites]

Looks like it.  Guess you'll find out soon ;)
Set up a log in your .procmailrc

These two lines should tell you how it's doing:

LOGFILE=procmail-log
VERBOSE=yes



On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 ripstop@attbi.com wrote:

> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 17:27:06 +0000
> From: ripstop@attbi.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Autofwd:Re: Procmail woes....
>
> In my sendmail.cf file, I found this line....does this
> indicate the procmail is my lta ?
>
> Mlocal,         P=/usr/bin/procmail,
> F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL,
> R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
>                 T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
>                 A=procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u
>
> -Ripstop
> > 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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