Hi,
I am completely new to procmail. I have read several pages on the subject
and thought
it would be pretty easy to use. My sys admin told me that procmail v3.13.1
is installed
on our server (a HP-UX v10) in /ids/bin/procmail
I have a shell account on the server, username eforest. What I did was:
- create a .forward file in my $HOME directory, readable for the world,
containing the line:
"|IFS=' ' && exec /ids/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #eforest"
- create a very simple .procmailrc file in my $HOME directory, readable for
the world containing:
:0c
$HOME/mail.backup
According to what I understand, that would send a copy of all mail received
on my account
to the mail.backup file.
But it doesn't work. I know that the .forward is ok, because when I change
"procmail" to
"blabla" in it I stop receiving mail (so the mail is sent to a non-existant
program and lost).
But with "procmail" in my .forward file, I receive all my mail normally, but
no copy is done
anywhere. I also tried to send the mail to an existing directory, or
directly to /dev/null
(taking care of removing the "c" flag - so I shouldn't receive any mail
anymore) and none
of this works. I receive all my mail normally and the desired effect is not
achieved.
There must be some detail I'm not aware of, can anobody help me out here?
Thank you in advance,
Etienne