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Re: Procmail Installation Problem

1997-07-15 08:18:00
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:47:58 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Reed-Ballreich 
<cindy(_at_)shark(_dot_)ywd(_dot_)com> said:
On Jul 14,  6:38pm, Stan Ryckman wrote:

Uhh, you didn't mention a .forward file; do you have one?  If so,
what's in it?

According to the docs, .forward shouldn't be necessary if procmail is
the local delivery agent. correct?

Yes, that's correct.

However, I do have one. Right now it just contains a line to send
split messages to MediaMail's reassembly program...

|/usr/lib/Zmail/bin/reassembler

Since you have a .forward, though, all bets are off.  sendmail invokes
that program for you and calls it a day.  When you use a .forward file
sendmail never invokes the local mailer for you, it uses the .forward
file instead.  Since you say procmail is invoked when you replace
/bin/mail with procmail, reassembler is probably using /bin/mail to do
the final delivery.

If I were you I'd probably ditch the .forward file and have my .procmailrc
send the appropriate messages through the reassembler, but the details
vary depending on the options reassembler gives you.

-- 
Roderick Schertler
roderick(_at_)argon(_dot_)org

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