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Re: procmail in .forward

1996-10-28 08:38:34
On Freitag, 25. Oktober 1996 18:26, Guy 
Geens[SMTP:ggeens(_at_)elis(_dot_)rug(_dot_)ac(_dot_)be] wrote:
On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Alexander Bergolth wrote:

Is it possibe to copy any incoming mail into a folder in my 
home-directory but also leave it in "/var/spool/mail/..." using procmail 
in .forward?

Put this in your .procmailrc:

MAILDIR=$HOME
:0c:
my_mailfile

:0:
$ORGMAIL

How can I start procmail via .forward and which entries in .procmailrc 
are necessary?

The .forward file is mentioned in the man page. It should read:

"|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #YOUR_USERNAME"

(Replace YOUR_USERNAME by your login.)


I have tried it, but it doesn't work. I don't receive anything, each mail is 
sent back with the following message:

From: MAILER-DAEMON(_at_)zechine(_dot_)wu-wien(_dot_)ac(_dot_)at (Mail Delivery 
Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: Deferred

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
procmail: [34870] Mon Oct 28 10:49:31 1996
procmail: Opening "/dev/null"
procmail: Opening "/dev/console"
554 mailer sh died with signal 11

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
...

The entry in .forward should be correct, procmail is started, but why is it 
waiting for console input?

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