Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:32:32 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Wayne K9DI <k9bsd@k9di.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Procmail help please Message-ID: <20040324143231.GB12160@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040324141721.GA31880@a.k9di.org> References: <20040324141721.GA31880@a.k9di.org>
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:17:21PM +0000, Wayne K9DI wrote:
> Wayne K9DI & Leader Dog Patriot here. I am writing to ask for some help=
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> I was reading a procmail quickstart guide (by Nancy McGough) and I got to=
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> about the .forward file. The guide stated that most modern systems don't=
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> .forward so my question is do I need a .forward file on system running Fr=
eeBSD=20
> 5.2? =20
It depends on how you configure your mail system. If you use what is
provided by default -- sendmail(8) as the MTA, mail.local(1) as the
MDA, then running procmail(1) via a .forward file should just work.
However, most people wishing to use procmail will set it up as the
standard mail delivery agent -- for sendmail, all you need to do is
add:
FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl
to your `hostname`.mc file and build and install a sendmail
configuration from that. If you do that, then all of the mail
delivered on your system will be processed by procmail automatically,
and all you need is a ~/.procmailrc file containing your procmail
recipes (procmail will just deliver to the default mailbox if there
isn't a ~/.procmailrc).
There are usually similar ways of making procmail the default delivery
agent for other MTAs -- there's plenty of HOWTOs and other information
available if you search the net.
Cheers,
Matthew
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