Re: procmail & forward files

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Peter Delevoryas wrote:

[...]
> 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"
Hi Peter !

You forgot one ;-) :

here's my .forward:

"| exec /usr/bin/procmail -Y -f- || exit 75 #maschi"

If i definded the IFS like "IFS=' ' &&..." or something similar procmail didn't
work. Without defining IFS it works propperly.

HIH

bye, Joerg
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