Re: fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-14 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Graham Ashton wrote: > humbug% cat .forward > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f || exit 75 #ashtong" > humbug% ll .forward Thanks, I was setting ~/.forward the wrong way ;-) r i c h a r d l. a l h a m a technical support group cyberspace laoag, isp 2900 phils.

Re: fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-13 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Could you please clarify my understanding?? I read the document about procmail. I don't understand why we need to use .forward.(what does it do wanyway??) In the man page, it says if we use fetchmail -v --mda formail -s procmail Then all the mails arrived will be go

Re: fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-13 Thread Graham Ashton
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 slightl

Re: fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-13 Thread Richard L. Alhama
I used to have a working sendmail/fetchmail/procmail setup until I reinstalled hamm on my machine(used to be 1.3) after I've messed up init. But when I choosed smail as my MTA, my used to be working ~/.procmailrc could not sort mail anymore. I forgot how I set things up before, maybe a litt

fetchmail + procmail setup

1998-12-13 Thread Dave Swegen
Well, since there seems to be a fair a number of people who can't figure this out, I thought it might be helpful if I mailed my own setup. First of all read the mail filtering FAQ (search yahoo for it). This describes more in detail the system that I use. Anyway, this is how I do it. In /etc/ppp/i