I'm trying to install procmail for my local usage.
I've followed the man pages, READMEs and FAQ.
but procmail will not execute from within my .forward
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Here is my /home/walterm/.forward:
% ls -l /home/walterm/.forward
-rw-r--r-- 1 walterm fedex 62 Apr 18 08:04 .forward
% cat .forward
\walterm, walter, "|exec /home/walterm/bin/procmail #walterm"
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Here is my .procmailrc:
% ls -l .procmailrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 walterm fedex 288 Apr 18 07:32 .procmailrc
% cat .procmailrc
#Set on when debugging
VERBOSE=on
#Replace `mail' with your mail directory (Pine uses mail, Elm uses Mail)
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
#Directory for storing procmail log and rc files
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.testing
INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists
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Here is the priviledges on my home dir:
% ls -lad /home/walterm
drwxr-xr-x 12 walterm other 1536 Apr 18 07:54 /home/walterm/
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Here is the priviledges on my bin dir:
drwxrwxr-x 2 walterm fedex 512 Apr 18 07:48 /home/walterm/bin/
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Here are the contents of my bin dir:
% ls -al /home/walterm/bin
total 214
drwxrwxr-x 2 walterm fedex 512 Apr 18 07:48 ./
drwxr-xr-x 12 walterm other 1536 Apr 18 07:54 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 walterm fedex 31380 Apr 18 07:48 formail*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 walterm fedex 5393 Apr 18 07:48 mailstat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 walterm fedex 68580 Apr 18 07:48 procmail*
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Here are the contents of my .procmail dir:
% ls -la /home/walterm/.procmail
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 walterm fedex 512 Apr 18 07:32 ./
drwxr-xr-x 12 walterm other 1536 Apr 18 07:54 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 walterm fedex 0 Apr 18 07:32 log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 walterm fedex 33 Apr 18 07:28 rc.testing
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The only reason there's a log file there is that I touched it.
when I send a test message:
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% mailx -v -s test walterm
testing