From: srb(_at_)cuci(_dot_)nl (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Subject: Re: problems compiling 3.11.3
[Dallman Ross wrote:]
I still can't get procmail to work here, but will try again tomorrow.
That is, my .forward says:
"|$HOME/.dman/bin/procmail -tf- || exit 75 #hh0"
^^^^^ NEVER put environmentvariable or ~ expansions in the
.forward file. Use absolute paths (the man pages and the FAQ are
fairly explicit about this, so I'd like to know why you missed that
and:
From: hal(_at_)dtor(_dot_)com (Hal Wine)
Subject: Re: problems compiling 3.11.3
At 09:23 11/3/95, Dallman Ross wrote:
"|$HOME/.dman/bin/procmail -tf- || exit 75 #hh0"
(This is my fiancee's account, so I use the .dman subdir.)
When I put that in place, mail vanishes into thin air. And there is
no logfile, even though I have verbose turned on.
I just got bit by something like this when I helped a friend install
procmail. You may need the full incantation, not the one that works
on netcom. E.g.:
"|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #YOUR_USERNAME"
For some reason his system needed that IFS parameter.
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I read the FAQs a long, long time ago. Sorry. Somehow, over many
discussions with David Tamkin, et al., over the months, I had thought
that some systems allowed $HOME. Perhaps a bad presumption.
The bad news is that I still have no progress, although my .forward now
reads:
"|IFS=' ' && exec /u/iued/hh0/.dman/bin/procmail -tf- || exit 75 #hh0"
Still no log and vanishing mail. But I will work on it. Next step is
a totally simplified .procmailrc. . . .
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Dallman Ross