On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:18:28 +0200, "Ruud H.G. van Tol"
<rvtol(_at_)isolution(_dot_)nl> wrote:
Normally sendmail (v8?) detects the .procmailrc in your home,
so you don't need to put anything awkward in your .forward.
This is not correct. Sendmail still doesn't ship with Procmail
preconfigured, you have to reconf it using the right FEATURE. Unless
this was changed +very+ recently. (8.9.4?) Certainly not true for any
old v8 in any case.
Now, many installations (Red Hat, I think, among others) preconfigures
their Sendmail package to do exactly this, but that is markedly
different from "sendmail detects the .procmailrc in your home"
(factually incorrect even if Procmail is installed as your local
mailer; the sequence of events is that Procmail gets invoked by
default if there is no .forward, and reads your .procmailrc if there
is one) or sweeping statements about Sendmail in general.
In the meantime, I'd chime in with Stan. The most important question
to Prasad (if you haven't solved this already) is whether you get
bounces or not. (Try sending from e.g. a Hotmail session or whatever
if you don't have "real" mail accounts elsewhere to test with.
The observation that /usr/local/bin/procmail is not consistent with
having Procmail installed in your home directory should solve at least
part of the problem, though. You need to replace that with the real
path to Procmail.
Hope this helps,
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