On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:11:11PM +0000, thus spake Mail Delivery System:
>
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:45:56PM +0100, thus spake Jonathan Gift:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We crossed msgs back thee. I'm not sold on any forward file. I deleted
> > it as requested and put in procmail your reference. No go. Mail still
> > shows up in /var/spool/user...
> >
> > > Shove this into a file called .procmailrc in your home directory
> > >
> > > :0:
> > > *
> > > /home/user/mail
>
Well, it must be either Exim or procmail! Given that each time I have
tried to mail you personaly it has bounced back, I suspect exim but.....
Start from scratch - you have exim and procmail both installed?
Is exim listening? Do
telnet localhost 25
you should get.......
Trying 127.0.0.1
Connected to localhost
Escape character is '^]'
220 glynthebearded.localdomain ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Tue..............
Does your exim.conf contain a section like this?
--------------------------------------------------------
# This director runs procmail for users who have a .procmailrc file
procmail:
driver = localuser
transport = procmail_pipe
require_files =
${local_part}:+${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:+/usr/bin/procmail
no_verify
-------------------------------------------------------------------
It should, perhaps!
How about procmail. here is the start of my .procmailrc
# This is my Procmail file started 18/02/2000
# Procmailrc comes in two parts - first you tell it where everything is
# then the recipes for allocating mail!
# LOCATION SECTION
SHELL=/bin/bash
LINEBUF=4096
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
VERBOSE=off
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/IN.glyn # you want $HOME/user/mail
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
LOGFILE=$HOME/mailsystem/procmaillog
FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail # yes, I know we use exim - but this works
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# RECIPE SECTION. first some useful tricks, then mailing list stuff.
# Back-p cache of 100 most recent messages in case of mistakes
:0 c
backup
:0 ic
| cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,200d`
# Nuke duplicate messages
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| $FORMAIL -D 8192 msgid.cache
# Regenerate "From" lines to make sure they are valid (old problem)
:0 fhw
| formail -I "From " -a "From "
# ------------ The killing fields --------------
# spam addresses deposited in "bollocks" file
:0:
* ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
IN.bollocks
# Matt Man
:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IN.bollocks
Hope this helps!
Glyn M
--
************************************************
* None can love freedom heartily but good men; *
* the rest love not freedom but license *
* John Milton *
************************************************
