Subject: procmail .forward

From: [email-masked] (Tracy R. Reed)
Date: 3 Feb 1995 01:07:01 GMT

Can anyone help me with procmail? I'm about to give up on it. I thought I 
had the correct .forward file, but apparently not. Everything else seems 
to work ok. If I do:

procmail < test.msg 

where test.msg is a message I sent myself containing all of the proper 
headers and everything, procmail works perfectly. But when I send it to 
myself using Pine, one of two things happens. Either the mail never 
arrives or it does not get sorted like it is supposed to. I'm pretty sure 
I just need the correct .forward file for SunOS.  I have read the SunOS 
man file. It says:

 For  instance,  to  invoke  the  vacation  program,  user js
     creates a ~/.forward file that contains the line:
 
          \js, "|/usr/ucb/vacation js"
 
     so that one copy of the message is sent  to  the  user,  and
     another is piped into the vacation program.

I have tried:
 
"|/home/ma/csgrad1/treed/bin/procmail treed" 
 
as a way of passing it on to the procmail program, but it just goes 
straight to my normal mailbox. I have the permissions on the .forward 
file set world readable.  Any ideas?

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1995 20:54:32 +0800 (TPE)

> file set world readable.  Any ideas?

Try:

"|exec /home/ma/csgrad1/treed/bin/procmail -Y #treed"

	Actually, I think your biggest problem is the treed v.s. #treed.
Without the # procmail tries to treat treed as an argument.

					Ed

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