procmail: owned by root and "-rwx--x--x "

Procmail doesn't seem to be running on my Linux account.

It has been set to "-rwx--x--x"

My .forward is

"|IFS=' '&&p=/usr/local/bin/procmail&&test -x $p&&exec $p  
-Yf-||exit 75 #luomat"

(all one line)

changing it to 'test -f' did not help either

Is this failing because I do not have 'read' permission for the  
binary?  I can execute it by hand (to get the version information,  
for example).

Thanks
TjL