Unless I overlooked something, the procmail docs do not directly
address $HOME. However, there is a statement in man procmailrc that as
a preset variable $PATH by default begins with $HOME/bin. On my ISP's
setup, incoming mail (i.e., from remote systems, in this instance) is
handled by mail servers apart from the box I get when I logon. I am
not a unix guru and do not understand distributed file systems well,
but I am wondering how $HOME in $PATH is understood by procmail when it
is not running as such on "my" system. For the record, for good or for
ill, my .procmailrc has
# SHELL and PATH for standardization and safety
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/etc
procmail on the mail servers is v3.11pre7. I don't know what sendmail
version is, but something has been going screwy with certain kinds of
recipes for me and some other users, and I seem to be getting the
runaround from the ISP. (Please don't suggest a new ISP, as that is
not in the cards just now.)
Thanks.
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