From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 30 01:05:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE84B106566C for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:05:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from gsicomp.on.ca (gsicomp.on.ca [200.46.208.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A030D8FC08 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:05:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by gsicomp.on.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FACFCC84D; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gsicomp.on.ca ([200.46.208.251]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 74812-05; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hermes (CPE002129cfd480-CM001ac3584898.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.236.129.198]) by gsicomp.on.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id DB1ABFCC737; Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:04:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: From: "Matt Emmerton" To: "Clayton Scott Kern" , References: <20100129195934.GA66728@reddwarf.local><20100129212910.GA90705@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20100130005827.GA9189@reddwarf.local> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:05:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5843 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 Cc: Subject: Re: Sendmail & Procmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:05:02 -0000 > on 01-29-2010, David Kelly wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:59:34PM -0500, Clayton Scott Kern wrote: >> > I just upgraded to FBSD 8.0 from 6.4 and I'm having a problem with >> > sendmail passing email to procmail. I only use this combination for >> > email from root's cron jobs. Right now emails to me from cron go to >> > /var/mail/ckern1. >> >> [...] >> >> > I created the cf file using make cf, then make install and make >> > restart. >> >> OK, but did the procmail enhancements make it in the generated .cf file? >> >> > What have I missed. This is the same setup on 6.4 and it worked fine. >> >> If making procmail available (or mandatory) for all users I can see >> justification for what you are trying. But for just one user why not >> keep it simple with a "|/usr/local/bin/procmail" in /etc/aliases? > > I aliased root to me and now it works. Thank you for the tip. > > I set up sendmail this way years ago, before I discovered fetchmail, > procmail, getmail & maildrop. > > I would like to get away from sendmail or any other MTA for that matter, > but > never found solution for handling the emails generated by the system. Check out DragonFlyBSD's dma(1). It's designed just for this purpose. -- Matt Emmerton