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procmail on distributed mail systems

1997-09-01 11:58:11

Hi,

 I had sent a message 2-3 days back about procmail on distributed mail
systems. I haven't received any reply to it. I am including my question
again below and hoping to receive some sort of reply this time :)

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From mdutt(_at_)umich(_dot_)edu Mon Sep  1 14:52:45 1997
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 16:58:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: "M. V. Gurudev Dutt" <mdutt(_at_)umich(_dot_)edu>
To: procmail(_at_)Informatik(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
Subject: procmail on distributed mail systems.


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 no mail is ever delivered into /var/mail/$LOGNAME on my login
machines, and instead delivered 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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