procmail, forward, and postfix

[Timothy Luoma]

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:16:42 -0700, David Bear <David.Bear at asu.edu> wrote:

> I don't understand a thing it does.. but I put it in my home directory
> anyway and called it .forward.
>
> It appears the procmail is no 'firing' when message come.  Looking for
> any pointers?  been through to procmail faq sites and thought there
> might be a recommendation here.

Do you have a ~/.procmailrc file?  If so, what is it?


> contents of .forward
> "|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf-
> || exit 75 #Metropolis"
>
> 'Metropolis' is the name of the account.  Any pointers?

Is procmail installed at /usr/local/bin/procmail?  (Sorry had to ask)

If so, then you need a .procmailrc file.

It can be as simple as this:

# Edit as appropriate
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin
SHELL=/bin/sh
# DIRECTORY where you want to store mail
# MAKE SURE IT EXISTS
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail.log
VERBOSE=yes # Change to 'no' once you have it working
LOGABSTRACT=all

:0c:
Backups

# EOF

All that will do is make a backup COPY (hence the ":0c:") of all your 
incoming mail.  It's an easy way to test to make sure procmail is 
working... that, and see if there is anything in the log file.

TjL

ps - nothing really FBSD-specific here, so you might want to checkout the 
super-handy procmail list: http://www.procmail.org/era/lists.html

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