You wrote sometime ago (and I didn't saw any answer...):
hello, I'm using linux and I'm connected to Internet with an Internet access
provider. I have a POP mailbox. When I get my mail (w/ popclient) it goes to
a single user (I've created a special user called 'maildist').
I'm in the same case as you and for sure (see: (*)) the standard procmail setup
doesn't work with this configuration...
I'm puzzled why it's so rare to see this case here! Are you all connected
directly to the Internet????
This user has a ..forward file and a .procmailrc with receipes that let him
distribute the mail to the different users (to their mail spool dir
/usr/spool/mail/$USER), and setting a special user that will receive all the
mail that haven't been distributed (because no matching receipes) via the
$DEFAULT variable.
Maybe /etc/procmailrc should work without creating a special user?
Then each user will have a .forward and put their own mail in the right
folders. But will procmail being executed when they'll receive the mail in
their spool dir from the user maildist ?
Anyone knows how to do that properly ? (with an exemple please). Stephen R.
van den Berg has told me to use the "procmail -d recipient" command to
deliver the mail to individual users, but I can't figure how to use it. Any
exemple ?
Thank you very much.
ps: I've done a procmailrc script for the maildist user that distributes the
mail to the different users but it work only for _local_ delivery mail !
(why?!) --
(*) Just because there is no invocation of sendmail when you get mail from a
pop account! But when you send _local_ you run sendmail...
I think one solution could be a script to launch procmail from ipdown. But what
when we get connected one hour or more? We would have to wait to quit ppp to be
able to read new mail...
And a script launched by crontab.local would not be much elegant too...
What is the right solution??????
mc
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Year! ---------------------------------------------- Alexandre Molari ***
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