On 14 Dec, Richard L. Alhama wrote: > But when I choosed smail as my MTA, my used to be working ~/.procmailrc > could not sort mail anymore.
oh. well I have a very similar setup to dave. my .forward and .procmailrc files seem to be virtually identical (technically). my fetchmail is done slightly differently though (I'm running it from a cron job instead - I know, daft, but I can't be bothered to fix it). > what should ~/.forward contain? here's my .forward; humbug% cat .forward "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f || exit 75 #ashtong" humbug% ll .forward -rw-rw-r-- 1 ashtong ashtong 60 Dec 8 10:39 .forward > the permissions on /var/spool/mail? humbug% ll /var/spool/mail -d drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Dec 13 13:37 /var/spool/mail/ humbug% ll /var/spool/mail total 24 -rw-rw---- 1 ashtong mail 23017 Dec 13 17:28 ashtong they may not be right, but they work for me, and are debian's defaults. I'm also using smail, and I just copied the .forward from my old red hat system that was using sendmail. everything works as expected. I've got vanilla hamm. hope that helps you a bit. -- Graham
