From: LuKreme <kremels(_at_)kreme(_dot_)com>
On Tuesday, Oct 22, 2002, at 09:14 Canada/Mountain, Abid wrote:
Quick question about setting up /etc/procmail
/etc/procmailrc
. I am not sure if I need a ".forward" file with the /etc/procmail
if a user has a .forward file it OVERRIDES the system-wide
/etc/procmailrc file. (We just covered this on the list, in fact))
unless the user specifically calls
INCLUDERC=/etc/procmailrc
No. This is erroneous information. Surry, LuKreme. Yes, we just covered
it, but what you recall from the thread is wrong.
The presence of a simple .forward does not override or obviate an
/etc/procmailrc. From 'man procmail' (3.22):
If no rcfiles and no -p have been specified on the command
line, procmail will, prior to reading $HOME/.procmailrc,
interpret commands from /etc/procmailrc (if present).
So how one overrides /etc/procmailrc, if one exists, is to use -p
or specify the target rcfile on the command-line (including, one
presumes, within a .forward).
Dallman Ross
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