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Re: procmail problems on an ultrix v4.3 (rev. 44)

1996-10-16 18:28:15
spicano(_at_)ptdcs2(_dot_)intel(_dot_)com (Silvio Picano) writes:
After installing (personal) procmail on the above system, I
cannot get any mail to deliver properly.

my .forward file:

 "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/guest/spicano/pub/bin.ULTRIX/procmail || exit 75 
#spicano"


(Stephen, can you mention smrsh in the FAQ in the source tree, as well
as sendmail V8's fixing of the IFS and loss on identical .forward holes?)

To reiterate with edits my recent message to Robert Abrams


Note that on systems running sendmail V8, the above can be simplfied to:

"|exec /usr/guest/spicano/pub/bin.ULTRIX/procmail -f-||exit 75"


If you're using smrsh as the prog mailer, then you *must* have your
sysadmin put a copy of or link to procmail in smrsh's bin directory
(where ever that was compiled in as), and then simplify your .forward
file to just read:

"|procmail"

or maybe:

"|/usr/guest/spicano/pub/bin.ULTRIX/procmail"

though smrsh ignores the path given.  Smrsh will cry bloody murder, however,
if your .forward file contains any shell syntax like || or &&, and the exec
will cause problems as well.

Philip Guenther

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