On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 07:52:46 -0700 (PDT), Justin Morrison
<justinm(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com> wrote:
How would a person other than the admin of a machine tell if
RH 6.0's sendmail was configured to use procmail?
Look for the definition of Mlocal in your sendmail.cf (whose location
might be in /etc or somewhere, but modern Sendmail installations
usually have it in /etc/mail):
$ fgrep Mlocal /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qrmn9, S=10/30, R=20/40,
If you see P=/some/thing/procmail then you are using Procmail locally
and don't need to invoke it via .forward. Usually, creating a .forward
file will not hurt, though (but I have seen some -- sadly, rather
vague -- reports that having a .forward when you don't need one can
mess things up on some systems).
Tangentially, see also <http://www.iki.fi/era/mail/procmail-debug.html>
Hope this helps,
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