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Re: What is the WHOTO var?

1997-10-13 22:08:22

david hunt <dnhunt(_at_)rain(_dot_)org> writes:
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Philip Guenther wrote:
david hunt <dnhunt(_at_)rain(_dot_)org> writes:
WHOTO=friend(_at_)public(_dot_)com|everyone(_at_)your(_dot_)net|nobody(_at_)nowhere(_dot_)mil
I take it the value shown above is purely fictious, though correct
in form. 

No, it's literal. In my .procmailrc I do "EXECUTE=`env >> $LOGFILE`"
and have the environment written to the logfile. And that is exactly
what appears, even though I haven't set any WHOTO var. Subsequent to
finding the mysterious WHOTO var, I began unsetting the var in
.procmailrc with no apparent change in operation. I was curious what
this var might control, since the value it had was a list of popular
spam pseudo-destinations.

I change my mind: does your system have an /etc/procmailrc?  I wouldn't
be surprised if it did and it said something like:


        WHOTO = ......

        :0
        * $ ^TO_$WHOTO
        /dev/null


...or something like that.  Once again, your local mail guru would
probably know more.


Philip Guenther

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