Re: [SLUG] Procmail question for Paul

From: R P Herrold (herrold@owlriver.com)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 19:47:27 EDT


On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Mike Manchester wrote:

> I'm trying to setup procmail (your presentation at Dunden convinced me I need
> it). I read in a FAQ that the following needs to be added to the ~/.forward
> file.
> "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/procmail || exit 75 #myid"
>
> My question is do I need this and what does it do?

This is older advice -- most modern Linux distributions
install procmail as a local Mail Delivery Agent -- try without
it first and see if it works. Vertainly a post 5.0 Red Hat
has it...

-- Russ



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