From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 0:25:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B4837B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from limpid.insensible.net (limpid.insensible.net [208.58.23.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D83443E4A for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from morbiddk@insensible.net) Received: from knocked.insensible.net ([68.100.72.21] helo=kruel.insensible.net) by limpid.insensible.net with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17jEFX-0004XO-00; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:25:25 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020826032240.00b45bc0@208.58.23.51> X-Sender: morbiddk@208.58.23.51 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:24:29 -0400 To: elitetek@tekrealm.net From: Dave Subject: Re: procmail and .forward woes Cc: parv , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020826070842.GA781@freebsd.tekrealm.net> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020826000828.00b91860@208.58.23.51> <20020825022823.A13293@limpid.insensible.net> <20020825022823.A13293@limpid.insensible.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20020826000828.00b91860@208.58.23.51> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-4A7169D0; boundary="=======3BE47355=======" 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 --=======3BE47355======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-4A7169D0; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit At 12:08 AM 8/26/2002 -0700, Andrew Stuart wrote: >you may try: >"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 >#morbiddk@insensible.net" > >fixed my problems while using procmail with sendmail.. >YMMV Whenever I did the IFS it wouldn't even pipe the mail to the mailbox properly. Most of the mail I get from the FreeBSD server is mail from root which is aliased to the morbiddk account, when I did the IFS the mail would just sit in the root spool, when I removed the IFS and used the command as pasted below it sent the mail via the alias but began returning this error message as well. > >On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 at 00:10:20 -0400, Dave wrote: > > > > >then i installed postfix, rebuilt alias database, fiddled w/ .forward, > > >& problem went away. that is not to say those were/are the exact > > >steps to solve the issue; it just happens to be that way for me. ) > > > > I appreciate your input about postfix appearing to fix the problem, however > > I need to use Exim for what I am using this server for. Anyone got any > ideas > > as to how to setup a .forward similar to this? > > > > "|/usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #morbiddk@insensible.net" > > >-- >Andrew > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=======3BE47355=======-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message