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Setting up procmail

1996-10-15 21:03:30
Hi, read the man procmail and copy pasted the line that was supposed to be
an example into .forward file

"|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75
#_^HY_^HO_^HU_^HR__^HU_^ HS_^HE_^HR_^HN_^HA_^HM_^HE"    

And in the .procmailrc  as suggested, the following example;

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
     MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail      #you'd better make sure it exists
     DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox   #completely optional
     LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from   #recommended

         :0
     * ^Subject:.*Flame    
    


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When I set it up and tested a mailwith the subject of "flame" 
I got nothing,  I had it set to send themail with that subject to
/dev/null
also as outlined in the example in man procmail and man procmailrc

All fine, except it resulted in not getting ANY mail at all regardless.

Can anyone tell me what I have done wrong? 
I used the exact examples listed inthe man files, I use pine, set up the
.forward world readable etc

Apparantly it kills ALL mail so I changed the .forward file till I can get
it working.
Thanks in advance.

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