Ted Stern <stern(_at_)amath(_dot_)washington(_dot_)edu> writes:
I have tried all the different versions of .forward in the FAQ, including
interchanging `"' and `|' at the beginning of the line, but my mailer
will still not forward my mail to procmail. I have tested procmail
directly and it works, however.
1) Are you sure your mail is delivered on that machine? DNS MX records
can change it. Try running the command:
nslookup -q=mx my.mailhost.goes.here
The response with the lowest number next to it is probably the machine
where your mail gets delivered and where procmail would have to live.
2) What is the MTA on said system? sendmail? smail? pp? mmdf?
(Hint: telnet to port 25 of the machine and look at what it says.
For example:
lunen% telnet localhost 25
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Trying 127.0.0.1 ...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-lunen.gac.edu Sendmail 8.6.12/8.6.12:GAC-SPOKE-2.3.R9504160 ready at Tue,
30 Jan 1996 20:22:29 -0600
220 ESMTP spoken here
quit
^^^^
221 lunen.gac.edu closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
lunen%
If it's something like MMDF then you don't use the .forward file, but rather
something with a different syntax called the .maildelivery file. I'm not
sure how PP or smail does it.
3) (This should really be first) Have you asked your sysadmin?
Philip Guenther
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