Subject: procmail problems - "Service unavailable"

From: [email-masked] (Gisli Leifsson)
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 13:03:50 +0000 (GMT)

Hi
I have run into the following problem with procmail: Nothing happens! My 
.forward file looks like this:

"|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/mail/procmail -f- || exit 75 #gislil"

and my .procmailrc like this:

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log

VERBOSE=on
::
^From.*gislil
til_min

The .procmail directory is as yet empty. The message I get in syslog is
"Service unavailable" so it seems like I'm doing something fundamentally 
wrong. Procmail never seems to start up and all my mail is silently discarded.
My .forward file is world readable and /usr/local/lib/mail/procmail really
does exist.

So if anyone could tell me what might be wrong, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks
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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 13:11:11 -0400

On 23 May 1996 [email-masked] wrote:

> [etc.]

    Your question is about procmail, not about Pine, and this is the
Pine newsgroup.  You might get better service if you subscribe to the
Procmail Mailing List and direct your question there.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: Ashwin Kumar <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 13:38:52 -0700

> "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/local/bin/mail/procmail -f- || exit 75 #gislil"
[chop chop]
> My .forward file is world readable and /usr/local/lib/mail/procmail really

You better decide ... is procmail in /usr/local/lib/mail or
/usr/local/bin/mail. Maybe this is what is causing the problem ???

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