Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 19:47:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Spidey <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: Questions=answers <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Using the .forward file and procmail... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980710194502.343A-100000@outpost.nada.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980710172322.16451E-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Brett Taylor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Spidey wrote:
>
> > I'm unable to use procmail correctly. I wrote a .forward file in my home
> > looking like this:
> >
> > "| /usr/local/bin/procmail USER=beaupran"
>
> >From the examples/man pages, it needs to look like (at least mine works
> this way!):
>
> peloton: {2} more .forward
> "|IFS=' '&&p=/usr/local/bin/procmail&&test -f $p&&exec $p -Yf-||exit 75"
I tried to put this straight into my .forward file, and it's not
working... there are some things that I don't understand, like the $p, the
-YF-, and why there is a p= before procmail... Anyways, th email is still
stuck in the sendmail queue.
I don't know what's going on...
>
> Brett
> ***********************************************************
> Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu
> http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/
>
> How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a light
> bulb? Zero. They declared Darkness[tm] the standard.
>
Spidey
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