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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:44:36 +0200
From: Florian Bofinger <bofax@camelot.de>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc: Eric Brueggmann <brueggma@students.uiuc.edu>,
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Subject: Re: sendmail+procmail --> ~/.INBOX
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Hi,

On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 05:01:02AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 05:23:49PM -0500, Eric Brueggmann wrote:
> > 
> > My name is Eric Brueggmann and I was wondering if there is a
> > RECENT/relevant "HOWTO" on how to get sendmail to use procmail
> > to deliver mail into ~/.INBOX instead of /var/spool/mail/$ (FBSD
> > 4.0-STABLE)?  Or is it easier to just use qmail, that puts the inbox
> > into "~/"?
> 
> First of all, you ought to configure your sendmail to forward all mail
> to the procmail delivery agent.  This is done by creating a .forward
> file that contains
> 
> 	% cat ~/.forward
> 	|/usr/local/bin/procmail

If you're root on your box, a better way to do this is to include a
	feature(`LOCAL_PROCMAIL')dnl
in your sendmail.mc.

Greetings,
		Florian
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