It has been quite a chore getting procmail to run at all here. No success at all with the .forward hack; any time it is run, the mail goes to "nobody." Anyway I managed to get procmail running after finding a clue and hacking /etc/smail/transports like this:
# This is the Smail transports file, which gives details of how ... # It was originally generated by `smailconfig', part of the Smail package # distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system administrator. # Hacked 5 May 97: redid "local" local: from, local, inet, return_path, driver=pipe; user=root, cmd="/usr/bin/procmail -d $($user$)" smtp: uux: pipe: file: (all unchanged) At this point the hope is that I replaced my local delivery agent with procmail. Therefore, according to TFM, it should run if the user has a .procmailrc file. Those look like this: #Set on when debugging VERBOSE=off #Replace 'mail' with your mail dir MAILDIR=$HOME/mail #directory for storing procmail log and rc files PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.filter Now that is well and good, but it does not run! Mail gets forwarded by procmail to the user's account just fine, but the user's recipie does not get executed. Additionally, any attempt to run procmail with -m (filter mode) simply hangs up and does not run. I suspect more smail hacking is in order. Does anybody have a clue? TIA! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . . . This computer is RUNNING Linux!! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .