Forwarding this on behalf of Tom Sparks, who apparently can't get on
the list. Could somebody please respond to him directly? He's looking
for somebody who can help him set up Procmail on a web server.
Apparently there are some restrictions on what the local admin is
willing to let them do but at least getting the .forward stuff to
work should be possible, or at the very least somebody with basic
knowledge of these things should be able to diagnose what the problem
is.
Thanks-
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From: Tom Sparks <procmail(_at_)thebird(_dot_)org>
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At 02:48 AM 8/14/00 , you wrote:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000 02:49:44 -0400,
Tom Sparks <atlantis(_at_)thebird(_dot_)org> wrote:
>> What are the permissions on .forward and .procmailrc?
> 644
Again, please don't try to use me as a free consultant. I love to help
when I have the time but right now, I'm overloaded with "real" work.
So are we. Changing the world is labour-intensive.
Please direct your queries to the Procmail mailing list. Thank you.
We got an autoresponse a week ago saying that we'd be considered by the
moderator. We still aren't receiving anything. A ton of nonprofit orgs
rely upon our newsgate (we add the newsgroup headers and forward to a
friend w/a total public newsgate in Canada) for 10 newsgroups - maillists, etc.
We're having to find more volunteers to gate mail, and more to deal w/the
absurd spam that we get, all because we can't get procmail working. PLEASE
refer us to someone who will help us.
> All that we've found about reading .procmailrc is to put .forward in the
> home directory (if .procmailrc isn't read automatically), but all of the
> mail files are in OTHER locations, and there appears to be no reason for
> the mailer to ever look at our $HOME directory.
That's how it works.
The CGI doesn't help much, but it looks to me like your server is
running Sendmail 8.9.3.
$ host thebird.org
thebird.org has address 64.45.207.193
thebird.org mail is handled by mail.thebird.org
$ host mail.thebird.org
mail.thebird.org has address 64.45.207.193
$ telnet mail.thebird.org 25
Trying 64.45.207.193...
Connected to mail.thebird.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 amir.hosting-network.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Mon, 14 Aug
2000 02:48:45 -0400
expn admin
expn admin
502 Sorry, we do not allow this operation
quit
quit
221 amir.hosting-network.com closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
$
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