Hi,
I had installed procmail on my home directory after compiling and setting
up the various files etc. But when I tested it, nothing happened, and
since there was no log file, I figured procmail hadn't even been invoked.
Since then, I have figured out the following about my mail delivery here,
and just confirmed with my sysadmin :
I log in to a set of NFS-ed servers (or more precisely AFS-ed), and my
mail comes into another server (not a part of this set) which is running
IMAP. So sendmail never delivers mail into /var/mail/$LOGNAME on my login
machines, and instead delivers to the IMAP server. Since sendmail never
reads my .forward file in the home directory, I figure procmail never gets
invoked.
Any ideas for a workaround on this problem? Basically, everything is fine
as far as the installation etc of procmail goes, it's merely that I think
procmail wasn't designed to work in such a distributed mail system. Please
let me know if there is a way to get around this problem.
Thanks,
Gurudev
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