Dairy Wall Limey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jussi Ekholm wrote: >> So, is it really necessary to create ~/.forward in order to use >> Procmail, or is it just Exim, who notices if there's Procmail in use? > > if exim uses procmail as its LDA, no .forward is needed - your > .procmailrc is read already.
LDA was Local Delivery Agent, right? Anyway, I indeed have lines concerning Procmail in my exim.conf. And all I had to do was to create a ~/.procmailrc and after that it has been working like a charm; sorting incoming mail into different mailboxes (gazillion mailing lists :-) and kills spam from known addresses. It's a great tool. Gotta try SpamAssasin, NoSpam and these different spam catchers, too - so I wouldn't have to add new addresses in kill list every week, like I now have to. > since you don't need a .forward, my guess is that exim is indeed > using procmail as an LDA (i don't think it has its own). > it doesn't notice whether or not procmail is in use though.... And this might lead to...? The fact, that it doesn't notice if it is in use or not, that is. > with postfix (if mailbox_command isn't set to procmail -t) you don't > need a fancy sendmail style .forward.... i just use: > > zugzug% cat .forward > "| /usr/bin/procmail -t" > > which seems to work fine. Yeah, I have Exim and so far I've been totally satisfied with it. It does the job it needs to do without a complaint. Is postfix better in some way? Anyway, fetchmail -> Exim -> Procmail -> Mutt is my favourite. :-) Especially the last of the chain, seems perfect. What are those wierd ?-characters in thread tree, by the way - in 1.3.24i. -- Jussi Ekholm, "Everything is so fine it could be a little, ill flower don't let your mind take you in misery [EMAIL PROTECTED] all the feelings you're not so much pleased http://ekhowl.goa-head.org they're just to take you to sweet harmony"
