I installed procmail recently, and, for a days, couldn't get it to run.
I finally got it to run -- all the files were correct....except,
I installed it as per MITS instructions, which I believe said to
cd ~
ln -s .procmail/forward .forward
Well, apparently that caused the problem. No mail went to procmail.
When I removed the .forward link, and replaced it:
rm ~/.forward
cp ~/.procmail/forward ~/.forward
Procmail worked. (subsequent tests proved this).
My question is -- why would procmail treat a link to a file any differently
than the actual file itself?
John
Here is my .forward:
"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #ahearn"