From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 13 12:31:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from foo31-249.visit.se (foo31-249.visit.se [62.119.31.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B809937B405 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:31:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from martin@localhost) by foo31-249.visit.se (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fADKUqr04382; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:30:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from martin) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:30:52 +0100 From: Martin Karlsson To: Eric Cheney Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: procmail setup troubles Message-ID: <20011113213052.B4165@foo31-249.visit.se> Mail-Followup-To: Eric Cheney , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20011112084516.A15805@sociostat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011112084516.A15805@sociostat.org>; from cheney@soc.umass.edu on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 08:45:16AM -0500 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Eric Cheney (cheney@soc.umass.edu) wrote: > > > Hi folks. I can't get procmail to filter mail. Here's the story. > I'm migrating mail from a debian box to my FreeBSD box. I simply stole > the .fetchmailrc and .procmailrc files from the debian box and put them in > the home directory of the FreeBSD box. Both of these files were fully > functional with the debian box, so I think they are ok. > Then I installed procmail using the ports collection... Finally I made a > .forward file with the line "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail || exit 75" .... > I put this .forward file in my home directory. > > With this setup procmail just loses all incoming mail, and some mail > is not even fetched because it says it cannot resolve the domain > of the sender. > > What am I doing wrong? Any ideas out there? Well, just in case, what are your permissions for your .forward file? They should be (at least they work for me ;)): -rw-r--r-- Good luck, -- ------------------------------------------------ Martin Karlsson martin.karlsson@visit.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message