procmail & forward files

Hello,

I've been trying to set up procmail on Solaris 2.6

To cut to the chase, the only way I can get it to work is to
create an entry in /etc/aliases:

user:   "| /usr/local/bin/procmail"

but even then, I have to specify the $HOME in /etc/procmailrc, it doesn't find 
the user's 
procmailrc ( since it's not working from the .forward, it all runs as root )

Excerpt from a truss shows $HOME is / ( since I guess sendmail is running as 
root ):

  2972  11831:  stat("//.procmailrc", 0xEFFFFD80)       Err#2 ENOENT



I have tried about 8 different ways of concocting the .forward, but
none work:

 "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail #pdel"
 "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail USER=pdel"
 "|IFS=' ';exec /usr/local/bin/procmail #pdel"
 "|IFS=' ';exec /usr/local/bin/procmail USER=pdel"
 "|/usr/local/bin/procmail #pdel"
 "| IFS=' ' &&   exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f-  || exit 75 #pdel" 
 "|IFS=' ' && p=/usr/local/bin/procmail && test -f $p && exec $p -Yf- || exit 
75 #pdel"
 "| IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #pdel"


The vacation program in the forward file works fine.



When I 'echo' a mail message and | /usr/local/bin/procmail, it works fine.



Any help appreciated

thx.