From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 12 10:43: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C74937B418; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 10:42:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from phantom (staff.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fACIbSO44630; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:37:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu) Message-ID: <00dd01c16ba9$e9d9ba90$0f01a8c0@phantom> From: "Gerald T. Freymann" To: , Cc: "Eric Cheney" , References: <20011112084516.A15805@sociostat.org> <20011112181601.GB53398@keyslapper.org> Subject: Re: procmail setup troubles Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:43:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 > Keep in mind that procmail is only a filter agent. It will never see > incoming mail unless you hand it off to procmail. This is done by the > MTA, or Mail Transfer Agent. Probably Sendmail. Yes, that is ONE way of doing it, but as the original poster indicated, you can also hand off email to procmail by using the .forward method. I think he is using the wrong syntax. See: http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ That sight goes over the set-up quite nicely. -gf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message