Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:05:03 -0500 From: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Clayton Scott Kern" <ckern1@roadrunner.com>, <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Sendmail & Procmail Message-ID: <F1625D751B314A5DBDCA60F51BFCD246@hermes> References: <20100129195934.GA66728@reddwarf.local><20100129212910.GA90705@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20100130005827.GA9189@reddwarf.local>
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> on 01-29-2010, David Kelly wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:59:34PM -0500, Clayton Scott Kern wrote: >> > I just upgraded to FBSD 8.0 from 6.4 and I'm having a problem with >> > sendmail passing email to procmail. I only use this combination for >> > email from root's cron jobs. Right now emails to me from cron go to >> > /var/mail/ckern1. >> >> [...] >> >> > I created the cf file using make cf, then make install and make >> > restart. >> >> OK, but did the procmail enhancements make it in the generated .cf file? >> >> > What have I missed. This is the same setup on 6.4 and it worked fine. >> >> If making procmail available (or mandatory) for all users I can see >> justification for what you are trying. But for just one user why not >> keep it simple with a "|/usr/local/bin/procmail" in /etc/aliases? > > I aliased root to me and now it works. Thank you for the tip. > > I set up sendmail this way years ago, before I discovered fetchmail, > procmail, getmail & maildrop. > > I would like to get away from sendmail or any other MTA for that matter, > but > never found solution for handling the emails generated by the system. Check out DragonFlyBSD's dma(1). It's designed just for this purpose. -- Matt Emmerton
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